Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. to place within a trench, or ditch, for defense; to place in a strong defensive position
  2. 5. corpus a legal order that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court.
  3. 7. the side or edge of a military formation
  4. 10. freed slaves in parts of the South that were in rebellion. Allowed African Americans to join the military.
  5. 13. a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle
Down
  1. 1. to formally join a military force
  2. 2. state state on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
  3. 4. refusal to give in
  4. 6. a reward or payment
  5. 8. a system of selecting people for required military service
  6. 9. war a strategy of bringing war to the entire society, not just the military
  7. 11. a warship equipped with iron plating for protection
  8. 12. stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river