Delight's civil war in the west

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Across
  1. 3. Name for a person that is a footsoldier in an army
  2. 4. He and his sons attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry hoping to begin a slave uprising, he was hanged for the crime
  3. 6. The supreme court said that this slave was property and therefore led to the civil war
  4. 7. President elected in 1860
  5. 11. Plan to surround the south, capture Richmond and control the Mississippi
  6. 14. battling up and down the penisula near Washington immediately following the first battle of Bull Run
  7. 15. The word to leave the union of states
  8. 19. Mighty river that the Union forces needed to control to win the civil war in the west
  9. 20. The word to free something
  10. 22. This state was "Bleeding" since people were voting on the issue of slavery shortly before the civil war
  11. 24. Last name of supreme commander of the confederacy
  12. 25. First battle near Washington DC where citizens fled
Down
  1. 1. Naval commodore of union army, he led 18 boats into the mississsippi river to aid Grant in his battles in the west
  2. 2. President of the south once they announced they were going to be their own nation
  3. 5. City at the mouth of the Mississippi river, Andrew Jackson defended it from the British in the war of 1812
  4. 8. Commander of the union who came up with the strategy to defeat the south in the civil war
  5. 9. Other name for the battle of Bull run
  6. 10. 18th president and supreme commander of the Union forces
  7. 12. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about the cruelty of slavery
  8. 13. Party that stood for abolition and Lincoln was the first to be elected from this party
  9. 16. Cruel practice of making property of Africans
  10. 17. Bloodiest day in American history, 23000 soldiers died near this creek in 1 day
  11. 18. City in Tennessee on the Mississippi river, Grant seiged it and the confederate forces ate their horses, dogs, rats etc....
  12. 21. This cut grooves in rifle barrels, making them much more accurate
  13. 23. Church where union armies camped on the Mississippi until confederate forces attacked, 20000 died in two days