Civil War Era People

3. Union general who practiced total war in his march through Georgia
4. Southern Democrat in Election of 1860
7. Civil War nurse "Angel of the Battlefield" who later founded the American Red Cross
8. Argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the debates for the IL Senate seat that slavery would stay down if the people voted it down.
9. Ran for Senate in Illinois in 1858 and was defeated
10. wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, raising awareness in the North of the horrors of slavery
12. South Carolinian Congressman who caned a Senator in the Senate for insulting his SC colleague
13. Constitutional Union candidate in Election of 1860
15. Confederate general who earned nickname "Stonewall" at Bull Run
18. Union general at Antietam; fired by Lincoln
20. Proposed compromise after election to keep Union together

1. Northern Democrat in Election of 1860
2. lame duck president after Lincoln's election who could do nothing to stop the South from seceding after the Election of 1860
4. led the raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry; became a martyr when hanged for this
5. Union general at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and then Virginia at end of war
6. Murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
8. president of the Confederate States of America
9. primary Confederate general in the war; surrendered to Grant
10. slave who sued for his freedom; case decided by Supreme Court (he lost)
11. Lincoln's running mate (VP) in 1864; president upon Lincoln's assassination
12. First female doctor; organized US Sanitary Commission during the Civil War to help the Union
14. Republican in the Election of 1860; winner
16. assassinated Abraham Lincoln
17. Massachusetts Senator who gave a speech “Crime against Kansas” in which he insulted SC senator Andrew Butler; beaten with a cane in retaliation
19. Superintendent for nurses in the Union army