Civil War
Across
- 2. ship made of iron
- 8. To leave or withdraw
- 11. Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
- 14. Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
- 16. Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win
- 19. The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia which left a path of almost total destruction
- 20. Union general
Down
- 1. the United States
- 3. Place where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered to Grant
- 4. President of the Confederacy
- 5. President of the United States of America during the Civil War
- 6. General of the Confederacy
- 7. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
- 9. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4th, 1863
- 10. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
- 12. Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861
- 13. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides
- 15. Device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances
- 17. Slave states that remained in the Union
- 18. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else