The Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. speech in which Lincoln praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the war
  2. 4. Union general whose troops won several important battles on southern soil and in the western campaign
  3. 8. Confederate general during many battles of the Civil War
  4. 9. ships that were heavily armored with iron
  5. 10. federal post in Charleston, SC that surrendered to the Confederacy, marking the beginning of the Civil War
  6. 11. Confederate plan to enlist England's aid in return for continued cotton shipments
  7. 12. order to free Confederate slaves
  8. 15. battle in Maryland that resulted in Lee's retreat to Virginia
  9. 16. Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  10. 19. the 54th Infantry, a unit of mostly free African American solders was from this state
  11. 22. strategy in which both civilian and military resources are destroyed
  12. 23. battle near Manassas Junction, VA, in 1861
  13. 24. the act of setting free
  14. 25. four slave states that bordered the North and did not join the Confederacy
Down
  1. 1. key three-day battle that was a loss for the Confederates
  2. 3. ironclad ship and the Union's counter to the CSS Virginia
  3. 5. six-week blockade of Vicksburg that starved the city into surrender
  4. 6. the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
  5. 7. Confederate attack that helped push Union forces out of Virginia
  6. 13. series of battles in which Grant tried to take Richmond
  7. 14. series of battles that forced McClellan to retreat from near Richmond
  8. 17. battle in which Union troops gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley
  9. 18. formerly the abandoned Union warship USS Merrimack, it became the first ironclad ship
  10. 20. escaped slaves
  11. 21. nickname for the Peace Democrats, a group who spoke out against the war