Civil War Crossword

3. A risky union cavalry officer who was known for his confederate raids.
5. A way soldiers protected themselves during warfare by digging.
11. The capital of confederacy.
15. A way many slaves escaped to freedom.
16. The president of the confederate states.
19. What the confederacy fought for from the U.S.
20. A military campaign led by General William T. Sherman where railroads and towns were destroyed in the south.
21. The seige of ______ was a major military campaign near the end of the war to cut off supplies from the south.

1. The areas held by either union or confederate forces used to control key zones.
2. One of the most important battles of the civil war where over 50,000 soldiers were injured/killed.
4. A major issue in the war with states in the South believing they should be able to make their own rules.
6. A violent conflict after the Kansas-Nebraska act.
7. Often fatal because of limited medical knowledge.
8. Where abolitionist John Brown led a raid.
9. Formed by 11 southern states that broke away from the U.S
10. A movement to end slavery
12. The breaking apart of a united country.
13. The place where the first battle of the civil war happened
14. The site of the battle known as the "battle above the clouds".
17. An important river that separated free states in the North from slave states in the South.
18. In the 1860 ____ Abraham Lincoln was elected president.