Political Cartoons in the Civil War

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Across
  1. 5. a confederate general who had served in the Mexican War and led troops during John Brown's revolt
  2. 9. a confederate general who commanded a unit that never retreated to Union troops
  3. 10. the mythological beast represented in "The Hercules of 1861"
  4. 11. the method practiced by General Sherman consisting of destroying civilian and economic resources, killing crops and livestock, burning down plantations, and freeing slaves
  5. 12. name of the withered tree the south clings to for support
  6. 15. the object Abraham Lincoln has in hand in "Lincoln's Last Warning"
  7. 16. compared to a mythological hero in "The Hercules of 1861"
  8. 18. craft material seen in "A job for the new cabinet maker"
Down
  1. 1. nickname for the northern states in the Union
  2. 2. a graphic with caricatures of political figure, expressing the artist's opinions
  3. 3. common topic in political cartoons; to divide or split in two or more factions
  4. 4. biased or misleading information used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
  5. 6. location the first shots of the Civil War were fired
  6. 7. Midwesterners who sympathized with the south and opposed abolition. They thought the war was unnecessary and called for its end.
  7. 8. a warship heavily armored with iron
  8. 13. another way to refer to political cartoons
  9. 14. nickname for the seceded southern states
  10. 17. leader of the southern confederacy