Civil War

3. – The Union general who led the North to victory and later became the 18th U.S. president.
5. – The President of the Confederate States of America.
8. – A key Confederate general known for his tactics, killed in 1863.
11. – The military draft used by both sides to recruit soldiers.
15. – The bloodiest single-day battle (Sept. 1862), leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.
16. – The leading general of the Confederate Army.
17. – Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, just days after the war ended.
18. – Warships covered in iron, marking a new era of naval warfare (e.g., USS Monitor vs. CSS Virginia).
19. – The site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the war (April 1865).

1. – Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware).
2. – The government formed by the seceded Southern states, officially called the Confederate States of America.
4. – A destructive Union campaign through Georgia (1864), crippling the Confederate war effort.
6. – Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
7. – The act of Southern states leaving the Union, beginning with South Carolina in 1860.
9. – A major Union victory (July 1863) that turned the tide against the Confederacy.
10. – The Union’s strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River to squeeze the Confederacy.
12. – Lincoln’s speech honoring fallen soldiers and redefining the war’s purpose.
13. – The Northern states that remained loyal to the U.S. government during the Civil War.
14. – The first battle of the Civil War (April 1861), where Confederate forces fired on a Union fort in South Carolina.