Furnace of the Civil War
Across
- 2. The state where Robert E. Lee was from
- 4. Gen. McClellan's replacement
- 7. Pres. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes ___
- 9. Gen. Hooker was replaced by this George
- 10. This Matthew was a Civil War photographer
- 11. The Union wanted control of this river to cut off the Confederate supply lines
- 14. The British had stockpiled cotton by getting it from India and this other country
- 15. The theater where Lincoln was shot
- 17. These were Northerners who sympathized with the South
- 18. Sherman and his men destroyed RR lines by doing these to the rails
- 22. This general commanded the Confederate Army even though he was against slavery
- 25. The general who was given command of the entire Union's forces
- 26. This Proclamation freed slaves in rebelling states
- 27. This Andrew was Lincoln's vice president during his 2nd term
- 29. This Union general was fired for being overly cautious and cowardly
- 30. This percent of the South's livestock was destroyed during the Civil War
- 31. It took Gen. Grant 6 weeks to win this battle
Down
- 1. This battle had the single bloodiest/deadliest day in the Civil War
- 3. The Merrimack and the Monitor were both this type of ship
- 5. Gen. Burnside's replacement
- 6. Lincoln suspended this which allowed him to arrest thousands of Confederate sympathizers
- 8. This amendment officially abolished slavery
- 12. The # of minutes for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address speech
- 13. The general who was given charge of the Mississippi forces for the North
- 16. The # of miles that the two capitals were from each other
- 19. At the Wilderness Campaign, Gen. Hooker split his army into this # of parts
- 20. At the Battle of Chancellorsville, the South lost "___"
- 21. This was the country that the Confederates hoped would aid them
- 23. Sherman's "___ to the sea" was his use of brutal, harsh tactics to shorten the war
- 24. Capital of the Confederacy
- 28. This battle was 3 days long and considered the turning point in the war
- 32. This is Hebrew for "place of peace"/also the name of a battle