The Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. What general led the Union forces in the Siege of Vicksburg?
  2. 4. Which was the first state to secede from the Union?
  3. 6. What famous speech began with the words "Four score and seven year ago...?
  4. 8. Which battle marked the first major victory for the union: Antietam, Gettysburg, or Shiloh?
  5. 11. Soldiers were usually given dry flour biscuits to eat. What were these biscuits called?
  6. 13. At the beginning of the war, Union soldiers were attacked by Southern sympathizers in what Maryland City?
  7. 14. How many states seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States of America?
  8. 15. Mary Boykin Chesnut was famous Confederate diarist, nurse, or spy?
  9. 16. How many days did the Battle of Chickamauga last?
  10. 19. What was the deadliest battle of the Civil War?
  11. 21. The capture of Vicksburg was important to the Union because the city was located on the shore of what river?
Down
  1. 1. What was the Battle of Manassas known as in the North?
  2. 2. Where did the Civil War start?
  3. 5. Who was mortally wounded while watching a play at the Ford Theater?
  4. 7. The Confederacy won the first Battle of Manassas. Who won the second Battle of Manassas?
  5. 9. Known to many as Moses, what former slave helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom in the North?
  6. 10. Stand Watie was the last Confederate general to lay down his arms. Of what descent was Stand Watie?
  7. 12. In what city were there major riots against conscription into the Union army?
  8. 17. Who were nicknamed "Angels of the Battlefield"?
  9. 18. Near the end of the war, did the Union or Confederacy control the Ocean?
  10. 20. Before the war, Jefferson Davis was a senator from which state?