Civil War Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 7. American nurse who founded the American Red Cross
  2. 8. Confederate general that played a major role in all battles in the Eastern Theater of the war
  3. 9. confederate general during the Civil War and led the Army of Northern Virginia
  4. 12. the alleged leader of “the rising” which was a potential major slave revolt
  5. 16. union commander of the battle fought at Fort Sumter
  6. 17. Shaw, commander in the Union Army that commanded the first all-black regiment in the Northeast
  7. 18. president of the Confederate States
  8. 20. Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln
  9. 23. US army officer that led in both the Mexican-American War and Civil War and was killed at the Battle of Chantilly
  10. 24. Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based Uncle Tom’s Cabin on his novel American Slavery As It Is
  11. 26. made about 13 missions to rescue about 70 enslaved people using network of antislavery activists
  12. 28. Union Army general that was recognized for his military strategies but also criticized for his harshness against Confederate States
  13. 29. Truth, first black woman to win a case against a white man regarding recovering her son
Down
  1. 1. enslaved African American preacher that led a 4-day rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia
  2. 2. Confederate general who served in the Western Theater during the Civil War
  3. 3. American actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  4. 4. created the first generation of American mental asylums
  5. 5. 18th president of the US and created the Justice Department
  6. 6. enslaved African American man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
  7. 10. 16th president of the US and helped abolish slavery
  8. 11. a major general in the Confederate States Army that commanded Pickett’s Charge
  9. 13. founded the newspaper The Liberator
  10. 14. 6th president of the US and son of John Adams
  11. 15. escaped slavery in Maryland and became national leader of the abolitionist movement in MA and NY
  12. 18. known for being captured at Harpers Ferry and fighting in Bleeding Kansas
  13. 19. Illinois born democrat that ran for president in the 1860 presidential election against
  14. 21. argued over 200 cases before the US Supreme Court and served as the 14th and 19th US Secretary of State
  15. 22. helped found the Whig Party and National Republican Party and was known as the Great Compromiser
  16. 25. Stowe, American author best know for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  17. 27. US senator from Kentucky that was the 3rd governor of the Arkansas Territory and lost an arm as a child