Civil War Era People

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Across
  1. 3. Union general who practiced total war in his march through Georgia
  2. 4. Southern Democrat in Election of 1860
  3. 7. Civil War nurse "Angel of the Battlefield" who later founded the American Red Cross
  4. 8. Argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the debates for the IL Senate seat that slavery would stay down if the people voted it down.
  5. 9. Ran for Senate in Illinois in 1858 and was defeated
  6. 10. wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, raising awareness in the North of the horrors of slavery
  7. 12. South Carolinian Congressman who caned a Senator in the Senate for insulting his SC colleague
  8. 13. Constitutional Union candidate in Election of 1860
  9. 15. Confederate general who earned nickname "Stonewall" at Bull Run
  10. 18. Union general at Antietam; fired by Lincoln
  11. 20. Proposed compromise after election to keep Union together
Down
  1. 1. Northern Democrat in Election of 1860
  2. 2. lame duck president after Lincoln's election who could do nothing to stop the South from seceding after the Election of 1860
  3. 4. led the raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry; became a martyr when hanged for this
  4. 5. Union general at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and then Virginia at end of war
  5. 6. Murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
  6. 8. president of the Confederate States of America
  7. 9. primary Confederate general in the war; surrendered to Grant
  8. 10. slave who sued for his freedom; case decided by Supreme Court (he lost)
  9. 11. Lincoln's running mate (VP) in 1864; president upon Lincoln's assassination
  10. 12. First female doctor; organized US Sanitary Commission during the Civil War to help the Union
  11. 14. Republican in the Election of 1860; winner
  12. 16. assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  13. 17. Massachusetts Senator who gave a speech “Crime against Kansas” in which he insulted SC senator Andrew Butler; beaten with a cane in retaliation
  14. 19. Superintendent for nurses in the Union army