Chapter 16 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. situation where enemy troops or ships shut off a port or other place to keep people and supplies from moving in or out
  2. 4. A movement of the Union army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Georgia seacoast, with the object of destroying Confederate supplies.
  3. 6. was named after Chickamauga Creek, which meanders near the battle area in northwest Georgia
  4. 8. known today as the bloodiest battle of the war
  5. 9. a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, a dedication of a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Down
  1. 2. was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
  2. 3. the greatest battle of the Civil War, fought in south-central Pennsylvania in 1863
  3. 5. a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.
  4. 7. a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War.