Civil War Trivia

3. Short term for Union soldier, especially from the North
6. Heavily armored warship type, like the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia.
8. Type of state like Kentucky or Missouri, divided in loyalty during the war.
11. Informal Union nickname for Confederate soldiers.
13. First name of the 16th president, assassinated in 1865.
16. Short for “compromise,” as in a political deal over slavery.
17. Daily food issue for soldiers, including hardtack and salt pork.
18. Rebuilds; what Congress did to the South in the era that followed the war.
21. Court House village where Lee surrendered to Grant in April 1865; “CT” short for “Court.”
22. 1862 Maryland battle that was the single bloodiest day in American military history.
24. Robert E. ___, Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.

1. What a soldier might receive in a letter envelope at camp; here used as a common English fill.
2. Union general known for his distinctive facial hair and the Fredericksburg defeat.
4. Collective name for the United States land forces that fought the Confederacy.
5. Southern soldiers who fought against the Union.
6. Roman numeral year fragment; here, part of “1860s,” as might appear in a document date.
7. What the Gettysburg Address sought to preserve for “the people” regarding fallen Union soldiers.
9. Military weapons and ammunition supplied to Civil War armies.
10. 1820 deal balancing free and slave states, later effectively undone by the Kansas–Nebraska Act; abbreviation for “Compromise.”
12. Union state that produced generals like Grant and Sherman.
14. Prewar activist who sought to end slavery in the United States.
15. Symbol carried into the fighting at places like Bull Run and Gettysburg.
19. Virginia town where John Brown’s 1859 raid tried to spark a slave uprising.
20. Nickname of Thomas J. Jackson, earned at First Bull Run.
23. Common field shelter for Civil War soldiers in camp.