Crossword of the Day

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Across
  1. 5. Slaves were declared free by this 1863 document
  2. 9. Nickname of the Union’s ironclad warship
  3. 11. The general who accepted Lee’s surrender
  4. 13. The “Great Emancipator”
  5. 14. Actor-turned-assassin, now a fugitive
  6. 15. Lincoln’s successor, Andrew _____
Down
  1. 1. April 9, 1865—Lee surrenders at ______ Court House
  2. 2. The country torn in two for four bloody years
  3. 3. Term for those loyal to the Union cause
  4. 4. President no more, struck down at Ford’s ____
  5. 6. The army that captured Richmond
  6. 7. State that seceded first
  7. 8. Theater of war, not the stage—this Union state saw many battles
  8. 10. Southern general who surrendered
  9. 12. Group Lincoln hoped to “bind up the nation’s wounds” with