Civil War Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The first woman to get a license to practice medicine, created an organization to help soldiers on the battlefield
  2. 3. Lee sent his army and in a few battles forced the Union away from the Confederate Capitol, Richmond, Virginia
  3. 4. The Union captured the mississippi river and cut the Confederate's supply chain in half
  4. 5. A three day battle that the Union won and took a defensive position
  5. 9. the idea that Great briton would help the south because they needed their raw cotton
  6. 10. A general who used the Total War strategy
  7. 11. Ships armoured with iron to try and break the Union blockade
  8. 13. The first battle of the Civil War, the Confederacy ordered all the people out of Fort sumter, when they refused they shelled them until the people surrendered
  9. 15. A war strategy where you destroyed everything in your path
  10. 16. the general of the Confederate army
  11. 17. the Confederate general who led the largest unit and Pickett's Charge
  12. 18. Slave states that stayed in the Union
  13. 19. A navy admiral that commanded many key victories for the Union
Down
  1. 1. A series of battles that gave the Union's other armies a way into the South, the death toll was high as over 17,500 soldiers died for the Union and over 7,000 died for the South
  2. 6. the bloodiest single day battle in the civil war
  3. 7. During the battle of Gettysburg, General Pickett led a charge with 15,000 men across Cemetery Ridge, they failed and lost 7,500 men
  4. 8. The constitutional right against unlawful imprisonment
  5. 9. Mid-westerners who thought the war was pointless and sympathized with the south
  6. 12. President during the civil war
  7. 14. where Lee surrendered to Grant