Civil War Station 8

1. union general whose troops won several important battles of southern soil and in the western campaign
3. proclamation order to free confederate slaves
4. six-week blockade of vicksburg that starved the city into surrender
6. three-day key battle that confederate lost
8. confederate attack that helped push union forces out of virginia
10. the place lee surrendered to grant
13. battle in maryland that resulted in lee's retreat to virginia
16. the country formed by speeding southern states
17. four slave states delaware, ketucky, maryland, and missouri that bordered the north and did not join the confederacy

2. confederate general who helped fight union troops at the first battle of bull run
5. the freeing of slaves
7. federal post in charleston, south carolina
9. speech in which lincoln praised soldiers
11. battle near manassas junction, virginia, in 1861
12. confederate general during many importnt battles of the civil war
14. battle in which union troops gained greater control of the mississippi river valley
15. general sen by president lincoln to capure richmond