Civil War Vocabulary
Across
- 5. cannons and other explosives
- 6. soldiers marching or fighting on foot
- 10. swearing-in of a new president
- 13. people who fought the Union
- 14. Northerners who went South to profit from the South's defeat
- 15. people killed or injured in a war
- 16. a person who fought the Confederacy
- 17. soldiers fighting on horseback
- 18. a ship covered with iron plates
- 19. states which left the Union
Down
- 1. a soldier stationed to keep guard
- 2. a light gun with a long barrel
- 3. a large farm
- 4. using ships to block the ports of a city
- 7. the recovery period in the South after the civil war
- 8. a collection of weapons and military equipment
- 9. land which is not yet a state
- 11. withdraw or leave the Union
- 12. Southerners who cooperated with Union officials after the Civil War.