Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  2. 3. American Confederate general, he led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles and the First and Second Battles of Bull Run
  3. 4. the first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory; showed that the Civil War would not be won easily
  4. 5. a Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River valley
  5. 6. a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War
  6. 8. an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War
  7. 9. a series of battles between Union and Confederate forces in northern and central Virginia that delayed the Union capture of Richmond
  8. 11. freeing of the slaves
  9. 12. Eighteenth president of the United States, he received a field promotion to lieutenant general in charge of all Union forces after leading a successful campaign in the West. He accepted General Lee’s surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War.
  10. 13. a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history
  11. 14. a warship that is heavily armored with iron
Down
  1. 1. an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863
  2. 7. a Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
  3. 10. a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War