Chapter 15 - The Civil War - Study Guide

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Across
  1. 5. The basic strategy of the Confederacy was to conduct a ___________ war.
  2. 6. This city in Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy.
  3. 8. Are people in war who are listed as dead, wounded, or missing.
  4. 10. This battle is known for being the single deadliest day of the Civil War.
  5. 12. This is the nickname to Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
  6. 13. the Union wanted to control the ___________ River and its tributaries to prevent supplies from reaching the eastern Confederacy.
  7. 15. She convinced officials to let women work as nurses and recruited many women to serve as nurses during the Civil War.
  8. 17. General Grant told this President that “they will make good soldiers and taking them from the enemy weakens in the same proportion that strengthens us.”
  9. 18. After capturing Fort Donelson in 1862, this Union General (and future President) told the leaders of the Confederate Army that had been captured that, “no terms except unconditional surrender can be accepted.”
  10. 19. This is the nickname to Confederate soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
Down
  1. 1. The 54th _____________ regiment served with distinction at Fort Wagner and in the Battle of Olustee.
  2. 2. He was an important General of the Confederate Army and contributed to their military success in the East.
  3. 3. This was a damaged ship that was rebuilt and covered with iron by the Confederates
  4. 4. When the Civil War began, many teenagers left home and went to serve in the ___________.
  5. 7. This General was nicknamed “Stonewall” in the Confederate Army and also Contributed to the South’s military success in the east.
  6. 9. At __________________ Courthouse near the end of the war, General Grant offered these terms of surrender to General Lee: Lee’s officers could keep their small firearms, any soldier with a horse could keep it, and all Confederate soldiers were sent back home with food rations.
  7. 11. The __________ won a narrow victory at the Battle of Shiloh.
  8. 14. This Union General’s March to the Sea ended in a victory for the Union.
  9. 16. Horace ____________ was an abolitionist who urged Lincoln to make the Civil War a fight to end slavery.