Civil War (James Smith)
Across
- 1. The side whose strategy was separated into three offensive parts
- 4. The small community that was completely transformed by General Grant, who made it his headquarters for the final ten months of the war
- 8. This ethnic group refused their Union soldier pay for eight months to protest low wages
- 10. Performed the first successful submarine attack in history
- 11. Northern democrats who advocated peace with the south
- 13. Scottish native reared in Alabama was enlisted in the Confederate army's medical department as a hospital matron
- 14. The number of slaves a plantation owner needed in order to be exempt from the draft
- 15. The South's famous ironclad
- 16. He had two sons who became major generals during the Civil War: one for the North, one for the South
- 19. Lincoln told this general to attack; He said “You are green, it is true, but they are green also.”
- 21. Lincoln said just 269 words but this became very famous
- 23. Maryland, Deleware, Missouri, and _______ were slave states in the Union
- 24. The major that surrendered at Fort Sumter
Down
- 2. He was wounded three times during the Civil War: in the chest at Ball’s Bluff, in the back at Antietam and in the heel at Chancellorsville
- 3. He devised the Anaconda Plan
- 5. The side whose strategy was to survive as a nation
- 6. It was the chief killer during the war, taking two men for everyone who died of battle wounds
- 7. Union nurse known as “angel of the battlefield”
- 8. This plans strategy was to squeeze the Confederate economy to death
- 9. The most famous copperhead
- 12. The state where 20 times the quota enlisted
- 14. An assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln occurred here in 1863
- 17. A ship that could splinter wooden ships, withstand cannon fire, and resist burning
- 18. This is where a draft riot occurred when Irish immigrants signed up as citizens not realizing it made them eligible for the draft
- 20. A draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army
- 22. The North's famous ironclad