Civil War Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. capital of the United States of America
  2. 4. slave states that did not secede from the Union
  3. 8. a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862
  4. 10. compulsory service in the federal military services
  5. 13. the diplomatic methods employed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce the Great Britain and France to support the Confederate war effort
  6. 14. a Confederate general who led the South's attempt at secession during the Civil War
  7. 15. an American politician and military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States
Down
  1. 1. a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
  2. 2. the first major battle of the American Civil War
  3. 5. capital of Virginia
  4. 6. what the north was referred to during the Civil War
  5. 7. military strategy that called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces
  6. 9. president during the Civil War
  7. 11. an American Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare
  8. 12. fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania