Civil War

6. is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century
7. a Civil War soldier's catch-all
9. a heavy, ankle-high shoe or boot
11. is a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War
13. foot-soldiers who fought primarily with small arms, and carried the brunt of the fighting on battlefields across the United States.
14. President of the north during the civil war
15. warships designed to be impervious to enemy shot and shell by virtue of their iron-armored wooden hulls

1. the withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
2. t typically had 500 to 1,000 acres or more of land and produced one or two cash crops for sale
3. A form of legal tender paper money created by the Union government to help finance the Civil War
4. the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War
5. the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865
8. First battle of Civil war
10. president of the south
12. weapons equipment and practices used to support the infantry and cavalry forces in the field