Civil War People and Events
Across
- 10. She founded the American Red Cross to help wounded soldiers
- 12. President of the Confederacy
- 14. Lincoln issued this announcement, changing the nature of the war to abolishing slavery in the South
- 15. President of the United States during the Civil War
- 16. Where Lee surrendered to Grant
- 17. this is our Memory Hook for the Confederate States
- 21. More soldiers died of this than of battle wounds
- 22. The Union victory here divided the South and gave the North control of the entire Mississippi River
- 23. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were known as this group
Down
- 1. The turning point of the war
- 2. Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
- 3. This state entered the Union in 1820 as a state with slavery as part of the Missouri Compromise
- 4. trading in enslaved people was banned here as part of the Compromise of 1850
- 5. The nickname of Virginian Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson
- 6. The Civil War began here
- 7. Also known as Manassas, this was the site of the first major battle of the war
- 8. The Union Navy did this to Southern cities like Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans to prevent money and supplies from coming in
- 9. He helped establish the United States Colored Troops to increase African-American involvement in the war
- 11. this state entered the Union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850
- 13. African-American who became a decorated Union Naval hero
- 18. Commander of the Union Armies
- 19. this state entered the Union as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise
- 20. what Confederate currency became when the South collapsed