Across
- 2. foot-soldiers who fought primarily with small arms and carried the brunt of the fighting on battlefields across the United States
- 5. crew-served big guns, howitzers, or mortars having a calibre greater than that of small arms, or infantry weapons
- 8. a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century
- 10. warships designed to be impervious to enemy shot and shell by virtue of their iron-armored wooden hulls
- 11. a slang term for U.S. dollars
Down
- 1. large property or landholding dependent on the labor of enslaved people
- 3. the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War
- 4. A leather shoe, similar to an ankle-high boot, issued to soldiers during the Civil War
- 6. a political union
- 7. a knapsack
- 9. a lower-class schemer with little education who could carry everything he owned in a cheap carpet bag