civil war

1. The "Angel of the Battlefield" who founded the American Red Cross.
3. The Pennsylvania site of the war’s bloodiest battle
7. The strategic city on the Mississippi River that fell to the Union, effectively splitting the Confederacy in two.
8. The name given to the Northern states that fought to preserve the country as one nation
9. The location of the courthouse where the official surrender took place in April 1865.
10. The 16th President of the United States
13. The formal action taken by Southern states to withdraw from the United States.

1. The name of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union.
2. The final Commanding General of the Union Army who later became the 18th U.S. President.
4. The 1863 executive order that declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free.
5. The Union General famous for his "March to the Sea" which destroyed Southern infrastructure.
6. The only man to serve as the President of the Confederate States of America.
11. The side of the conflict that possessed the majority of the nation's factories and railroads.
12. a brilliant commander of the Confederate Army
14. The South Carolina harbor where the first shots of the war were fired.