Civil War Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A Confederate General who got command of the army after General Joseph E. Johnston was wounded
  2. 5. A small Tennessee church that was close to the Mississippi border
  3. 7. South's ironclad ship
  4. 11. Union General who led the new Union army, encamped near Washington and became his army known as the Army of the Potomac
  5. 13. Commander of the military division of the Mississippi appointed by Grant
  6. 14. Plan The Union's plan to conquer the South
  7. 16. North's ironclad ship
  8. 17. Little Creek where Union soldiers came upon the Confederate army while traveling to the Confederate capital (Richmond)
  9. 21. A Union nurse that cared for the sick and wounded at the front lines
  10. 23. Place where South defeated North in the first four days of May
  11. 24. Location of a 3-day battle which many people consider the turning point of the war
  12. 25. Union general who seized New Orleans with ease
  13. 26. Location of a Confederate surrender on April 9th 1865
Down
  1. 1. Northern Democrats who advocated peace with the South
  2. 2. Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson got the nickname by standing "like a stone wall"
  3. 4. A Proclamation that didn't free all slaves but freed many slaves
  4. 6. Union General who captured two Confederate forts that helped strategic positions on important rivers
  5. 8. A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income
  6. 9. Fort that was where an attack occurred that sparked the war
  7. 10. Location of the worst Confederate prison in Georgia
  8. 12. A draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army
  9. 15. One of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River
  10. 18. Location of a gruesome massacre in Tennessee in 1864
  11. 19. Lincoln's two-minute speech that "remade America"
  12. 20. A court order that requires authorities to bring a person who is held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed
  13. 22. A creek that held the war's single bloodiest day