Across
- 2. six-week blockade of Vicksburg that starved the city into surrender
- 7. Union general with a two-part strategy for defeating theConfederacy
- 8. battle in Maryland that resulted in Lee’s retreat to Virginia
- 9. federal post in Charleston, South Carolina, that surrendered to the confederacy,marked the beginning of the Civil War
- 10. battle in which Union troops gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley
Down
- 1. Union general whose troops won several important battles onsouthern soil and in the western campaign
- 3. Confederate plan to enlist Britain’s aid in return for continued cotton shipments
- 4. four slave states Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri that bordered the North and did not join the Confederacy
- 5. naval leader who helped the Union take control of New Orleans
- 6. Confederate general during many important battles of the CivilWar
