Civil War Crossword

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  1. 2. Most common meals for soldiers that was much like a cracker, during the Civil War.
  2. 6. An unsuccessful assault led by the 54th Massachusetts.
  3. 7. This battle ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion and had led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
  4. 8. This battle had no clear or claimed victory, but marked the first stage of a major Union offensive toward the Confederate capital, ordered by Ulysses S. Grant
  5. 10. War occurring from May 31, to June 12, 1864.
  6. 12. Commanded the Army of the Potomac and engaged Confederate forces in several major battles.
  7. 15. A strategic location on the Mississippi River and made it a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy.
  8. 19. Led the Union Armies to victory over the confederacy.
  9. 20. Union soldier training camp and staging center.
  10. 22. Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
  11. 23. With nearly 200,000 combatants and was one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War.
  12. 24. President of the Confederate States of America.
  13. 25. Volunteered for duty in the United States Army in May 1861, and was initially appointed colonel of the 13th Infantry Regiment.
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  1. 1. Created in 1861, it was deployed to the naval battlefields to destroy wooden ships.
  2. 3. served as a superintendent of West Point
  3. 4. This battle was fought on July 1-3, 1863.
  4. 5. A pivotal figure in the fight to end slavery in the United States
  5. 9. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, this woman had provided nursing care and supplies to soldiers.
  6. 11. Congress had exceeded its authority in the Missouri Compromise because it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the territories west of Missouri.
  7. 13. A lead rifle bullet.
  8. 14. A major general in the Union army during the American Civil War
  9. 16. commanded the army through the battles of the Wilderness,Cold Harbor, and finally outside of Petersburg.
  10. 17. A battle that lasted since Apr. 30 - May 6, 1863; considered Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest military victory.
  11. 18. the second great engagement of the American Civil War.
  12. 21. The first full-scale battle of the Civil War.