Across
- 3. Plan a strategy where north blocked southern ports to all imports/exports
- 4. This is the turning point of the war, resulting a union victory.
- 6. The formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
- 10. Winner of the Election of 1860
- 12. Creek This battle is the bloodiest single day of the Civil War with about 23,000 dead and wounded.
- 14. Sherman The General who lead the Union Army in the deep South.
- 15. Wilkes Booth Person who shot Lincoln in the back of his head on April 14, 1865
Down
- 1. of attrition A tactic where killing southern soldiers that could not be replaced.
- 2. Corpus legal authority to detain a person
- 5. Court House The end of the war. Where Lee knew he had no choice but to surrender
- 7. Proclamation freeing all slaves in the seceded states
- 8. S. Grant The general who fought a war of attrition.
- 9. Sumter After 36 hours of battle, the Union troops surrendered with NO lives lost.
- 11. of Bull Run In the duration of this battle, the southern victory assured that south that this would be a quick war fought against inferior troops
- 13. to the Sea Where General Sherman and his men burned a path up to 60 miles wide, burned crops, poisoned wells, killed livestock and turned railroad ties into "Shernan's neckties".