Civil War

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Across
  1. 4. a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  2. 6. allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior
  3. 12. Confederate soldiers, hiding behind buildings and inside houses, attack Burnside's men, who are advancing into the town of Fredericksburg
  4. 13. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  5. 14. a member of a band of antislavery guerrillas in Kansas and Missouri before and during the American Civil War.
  6. 16. the act or process of rebuilding, repairing, or restoring something.
  7. 17. was held so that slave owner Pierce Mease Butler could pay off his gambling debts.
  8. 19. a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland
  9. 20. Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston's troops line the mountain's crest to repulse the advance of Union general William T. Sherman
  10. 22. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
Down
  1. 1. instrumental in the eventual victory for the Federal forces
  2. 2. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
  3. 3. captured the last confederate fortress on the Mississippi River, divided the Confederacy in two, and gave the Union complete control of the river.
  4. 5. an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864,
  5. 7. South Carolina location where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War in April of 1861,
  6. 8. failed attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers
  7. 9. proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862.
  8. 10. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  9. 11. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  10. 15. something that according to international law cannot be supplied to one belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the other.
  11. 18. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
  12. 21. a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate