Civil War
Across
- 2. the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
- 3. American Confederate general, he led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles and the First and Second Battles of Bull Run
- 4. the first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory; showed that the Civil War would not be won easily
- 5. a Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River valley
- 6. a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War
- 8. an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War
- 9. a series of battles between Union and Confederate forces in northern and central Virginia that delayed the Union capture of Richmond
- 11. freeing of the slaves
- 12. Eighteenth president of the United States, he received a field promotion to lieutenant general in charge of all Union forces after leading a successful campaign in the West. He accepted General Lee’s surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War.
- 13. a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history
- 14. a warship that is heavily armored with iron
Down
- 1. an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863
- 7. a Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- 10. a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War