civil war crossword

2. a wooden boat covered in metal plates.
3. a weapon used in the civil war.
4. relinquish possession or control over
5. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
8. the United States
9. related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal
10. a war measure isolating an area of importance to the enemy
11. put down by force or authority
12. a statement that is emphatic and explicit united being or joined into a single entity

1. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
6. a metal ball that is fired out of a cannon.
7. a black powder used in muskets.
11. any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War