Civil War

3. the center of the union war effort
5. The north
6. The confederacy
7. any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
10. seagoing steam ships that were used to get through the Union blockade that extended some 3,500 miles
13. served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
14. fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America.

1. first state to secede from the Union in December 1860
2. Led troops to victory in Tennessee and Mississippi
4. was an unrecognized breakaway state in existence from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865, that fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War.
8. the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
9. The union
11. commander of the confederate army of northern virginia
12. the name applied to a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
15. served as the capital of the Confederate States of America for almost the whole of the American Civil War.