Civil War Cross Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. Main cause of death in soldiers
  2. 5. Worked in the fields and picked and striped lint to make bandages
  3. 8. Designed to go around the union blockade and deliver goods
  4. 9. Union war strategy to starve the South and control the Mississippi River
  5. 11. Made up most of the Union solider population
  6. 13. Union troop commander
  7. 14. Took responsibilities of the household, management of their husband business, fundraising for the war, and served as nurses.
  8. 17. Town founded by slaves who's plantation owners joined the war.
  9. 18. travel north with the army, joined the army, and/or tried to find jobs
  10. 19. President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War
  11. 20. Escaped slave and black abolitionist who fought to end slavery
  12. 21. Crippling Morale and Destroying Railroads
Down
  1. 1. Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
  2. 2. Battle that ended in a Union victory giving them the area between Savannah and Charleston.
  3. 4. issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
  4. 6. A man could hire a ... to serve in his place
  5. 7. Confederate troop commander
  6. 10. President of the Union during the Civil War
  7. 12. Battle that marked the start of the Civil War
  8. 15. stated if you had 20 or more slaves you didn't have to fight
  9. 16. All-black soldiers led by Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War