CIVIL WAR

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Across
  1. 5. Virginia born Union General who developed the Anaconda Plan and was the Commander of all US forces in 1861
  2. 10. Confederate supported who assassinated President Lincoln
  3. 11. ADDRESS / famous speech by President Lincoln that reaffirmed the ideas for which the Union was fighting
  4. 12. Outstanding Confederate Virginia military leader who opposed secession and slavery
  5. 15. Military decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion
  6. 18. Skilled and cautious Union General who replaced Irvin McDowell after the Battle of Bull Run
  7. 21. Union General who pursued the Mississippi Valley wing of the Anaconda Plan and led at the Battle of Shiloh
  8. 23. Journalist whose exhibition "The Dead at Antietam" provided graphic evidence of the carnage of the battlefield
  9. 24. CORPUS / Constitutional right that protects a person from being held in jail without being charged with a specific crime
  10. 25. Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland; allowed slavery but had not joined the Confederacy
  11. 26. Captured war supplies
  12. 27. WAR / strategy that involved striking civilian, as well as military targets
  13. 28. Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River
Down
  1. 1. All-black Union Civil War unit led by Colonel Robert Shaw
  2. 2. 1862 law that made Western land available at a low cost to those willing to farm it
  3. 3. Union General who declared that enslaved African Americans who came under his command in Missouri were free
  4. 4. OF GETTYSBURG / decisive three day battle that resulted in more than 50,000 deaths and was the last Confederate attempt to invade the North
  5. 6. Military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy's ports
  6. 7. Bloodiest single day of the Civil War
  7. 8. The draft; instituted to to meet the need for troops
  8. 9. Confederate hero in Manassas who refused to yield to the Union
  9. 13. 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
  10. 14. / Military tactic in which an army surrounds an enemy and cuts off all supplies in an attempt to force surrender
  11. 16. Peace Democrats, opposed to Lincoln's conduct of the war who demanded an end to the fighting
  12. 17. 1862 law mandating black soldiers to serve in the Union military
  13. 19. / Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River that surrendered to Union forces in 1863 after a siege
  14. 20. SHERMAN / Union General who implemented the total-war strategy during his "March to the Sea" to capture Savannah, Georgia
  15. 22. BARTON / nursed Union soldiers in the Civil War; founded the American Branch of the International Red Cross