Civil war
Across
- 2. federal post in Charleston, South Carolina, that surrendered to the
- 3. Union general with a two-part strategy for defeating the Confederacy
- 4. bordered the North and did not join the Confederacy
- 6. series of battles that forced McClellan to retreat from near Richmond
- 9. took office as seven southern states left the Union. He promised he would not end slavery where it existed. However, he also promised to preserve the UnionFirst
- 10. battle near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in 1861
Down
- 1. marked the beginning of the Civil War
- 5. general sent by President Lincoln to capture Richmond
- 7. four slave states—Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and
- 8. Confederate plan to enlist Britain’s aid in return for continued cotton shipments