Civil War
Across
- 6. The United States; the Northern states.
- 9. Slave states ( Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri) that did not secede from the Union.
- 11. The formal withdrawal of southern states from the Union.
- 13. Escaped slaves, or those siezedby the Union army, who were considered confiscated wartime property.
- 15. A 1863 order by president Lincoln freeing slaves in Confederate-held territory.
- 18. A northerner who opposed the war and supported the South
- 19. A set of artillery cannons
Down
- 1. soldiers trained to fight on foot.
- 2. The period after the war when the nation was rebuilding and reuniting
- 3. Slang for surgeon.
- 4. soldiers who fought on horseback
- 5. Small, waist-high barriers built to protect soldiers from fire.
- 7. A sewing kit used by soldiers.
- 8. A two-wheeled carriage holding ammunition.
- 10. The period before the Civil War.
- 12. Placing the interest of one's own regions ahead of the nation as a whole.
- 13. A soldier who was killed,would, captured, or missing.
- 14. A person who supported the immediate end of slavery.
- 16. soldiers stationed in small groups ahead of the main army to warn of enemy approach.
- 17. A honerary promotion in rank, usually for merit.often without pay.