Across
- 4. an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War
- 6. a warship that is heavily armored with iron
- 8. a union victory in the civil war that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history.
- 9. the first major battle of the Civil War that resulted in a Confederate victory and showed that the Civil War would not be won easily.
- 11. He was an American soldier but he refused to head the Union Army and agreed to lead the Confederate forces. He was a major leader for the Confederate soldiers.
- 12. freeing of the slaves
- 13. the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
- 14. a federal outpost that was attacked by the Confederate soldiers that sparked the Civil War.
Down
- 1. 18th president of the U.S and was a lieutenant general in charge of Union forces during the Civil War.
- 2. a battle in which the Confederate army forced most of the Union army out of Virginia.
- 3. a civil war battle in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River valley.
- 5. a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War
- 7. an order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves.
- 10. slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War
