civil war
Across
- 2. inaugural address-President Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865
- 3. sumter- a sea fort built on an artificial island protecting Charleston, South Carolina from naval invasion
- 4. a Confederate general who led the South's attempt at secession during the Civil War
- 5. Jackson- one of the South's most successful generals during the American Civil War
- 8. corpus-a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention
- 11. proclamation-President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war
- 12. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare
Down
- 1. July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War
- 6. major strategic city for the Confederacy that served as a railroad terminus, supply depot, and manufacturing hub.
- 7. Davis- a Southern planter, Democratic politician and hero of the Mexican-American War
- 9. a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River
- 10. 1865, as commanding general, led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.