Cival war

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Across
  1. 1. Plan, a military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott during the early stages of the American Civil War
  2. 3. Run, the First Battle of Manassas, was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
  3. 5. Sumter, a fort that is historically significant for being the site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.
  4. 8. F. Davis, an American politician who served as the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
  5. 9. known as Peace Democrats
  6. 14. a small town in S Pennsylvania, southwest of Harrisburg
  7. 16. 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  8. 17. the Northern part of the United States of America, especially during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
  9. 18. ball, the Minie ball, is a type of rifle bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié in the 1840s.
  10. 19. a compass direction, opposite of South
Down
  1. 2. Court House, the site of Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865
  2. 3. a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle
  3. 4. the Southern part of the United States of America, especially during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
  4. 6. Emancipation Proclamation, a document issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states during the Civil War were to be free
  5. 7. a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon
  6. 10. S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States
  7. 11. Gettysburg Address, a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, following the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
  8. 12. the single deadliest one-day battle in American history, with nearly 23,000 casualties.
  9. 13. a compass direction, opposite of North
  10. 15. a large-caliber gun, typically part of artillery, that uses explosive force to launch a projectile