Civil War Crossword

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  1. 2. in VA where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, which ended the American Civil War.
  2. 4. an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household
  3. 5. decisive Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the Confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
  4. 7. a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River
  5. 14. City in VA, near bull run was the site of two Civil War battles in which Union forces were defeated
  6. 16. A network of houses and other places that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states or in Canada before the Civil War
  7. 17. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
  8. 19. was an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864
  9. 20. a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
  10. 21. a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it
  11. 22. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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  1. 1. a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina to defend the region from a naval invasion
  2. 3. Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston's troops line the mountain's crest to repulse the advance of Union general William T. Sherman
  3. 6. failed attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers.
  4. 8. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863
  5. 9. international law cannot be supplied to one belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the other.
  6. 10. the largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history
  7. 11. a Unionist who professes to rob, burn out and murder only rebels in arms against the government
  8. 12. period immediately after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states
  9. 13. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
  10. 15. allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior.
  11. 18. a creek in NW Maryland, flowing into the Potomac