Civil War Crossword

4. Lincoln praised the bravery of Union soldiers.
6. A series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond,Virginia.
7. Small town where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War
10. A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
13. On June 26, he attacked launching a series of clashes that forced the Union army to retreat from near Richmond.
14. The first major battle of the Civil war and the confederates' victory
17. Ships heavily armored with iron
20. Midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.
21. The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War
22. Jacksons troops met Pope's union forces on the battlefield
23. The confederates marched up slowly towards Cemetery Ridge.

1. A key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates.
2. Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River Valley
3. General Grant's troops began cutting off city and shelling it
5. Idea by Great Britain that would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's cotton supply.
8. The Confederate army in Virginia came under the Command of this general
9. Free African Americans led a heroic charge on South Carolina's Fort Wagner
11. The freeing of slaves
12. Destroying civilian and economic resources
15. Slave states that did not join the Confederacy
16. Founded the American Red Cross
18. A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Condederate troops, beginning the Civil War.
19. Decided to race past 2 guards at the entrance to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico