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Battle of Antietam
England and France now became hesitant to supprt the slaveholding Confederate states. As a result, popular sentiment in Europe swung to the side of the Union and destroyed the South's last chance of foreign assistance.
Significance: improvements in the North's military fortunes for which Lincoln had been waiting to announce the Emancipation Proclamation. This changed the wat from a political affair to preserver the Union to a crusade to free the slaves.
Lee wanted to sway sway the borders states to the Confederate side; they would strengthen the anit-war movement in the North, to draw Federal troops from areas from which they were menacing the Confederacy, and to temporarily rescue Virginia from the ravages of the war.
Exactly casualties from the Battle of Antietam have never been properly calculated, but it has been estimated that the Federals lost 12,410 men and the Confederates 11,172
What is known as the bloodiest single day of the war. The battle of Antetam fought on September, 17 1862 between General Robert E. Lee and General John C. mcCllellan.
The Battle of Antietam- was named after a village that was situated three miles north of the Sharpsburg, the actual location of the battle feild; considered by some historians to be the turning point of the war
