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