Civil WAR VOCAB



Across
2. foot-soldiers who fought primarily with small arms and carried the brunt of the fighting on battlefields across the United States
5. crew-served big guns, howitzers, or mortars having a calibre greater than that of small arms, or infantry weapons
8. a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century
10. warships designed to be impervious to enemy shot and shell by virtue of their iron-armored wooden hulls
11. a slang term for U.S. dollars
   
Down
1. large property or landholding dependent on the labor of enslaved people
3. the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War
4. A leather shoe, similar to an ankle-high boot, issued to soldiers during the Civil War
6. a political union
7. a knapsack
9. a lower-class schemer with little education who could carry everything he owned in a cheap carpet bag