Across
- 3. Name for a person that is a footsoldier in an army
- 4. He and his sons attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry hoping to begin a slave uprising, he was hanged for the crime
- 6. The supreme court said that this slave was property and therefore led to the civil war
- 7. President elected in 1860
- 11. Plan to surround the south, capture Richmond and control the Mississippi
- 14. battling up and down the penisula near Washington immediately following the first battle of Bull Run
- 15. The word to leave the union of states
- 19. Mighty river that the Union forces needed to control to win the civil war in the west
- 20. The word to free something
- 22. This state was "Bleeding" since people were voting on the issue of slavery shortly before the civil war
- 24. Last name of supreme commander of the confederacy
- 25. First battle near Washington DC where citizens fled
Down
- 1. Naval commodore of union army, he led 18 boats into the mississsippi river to aid Grant in his battles in the west
- 2. President of the south once they announced they were going to be their own nation
- 5. City at the mouth of the Mississippi river, Andrew Jackson defended it from the British in the war of 1812
- 8. Commander of the union who came up with the strategy to defeat the south in the civil war
- 9. Other name for the battle of Bull run
- 10. 18th president and supreme commander of the Union forces
- 12. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about the cruelty of slavery
- 13. Party that stood for abolition and Lincoln was the first to be elected from this party
- 16. Cruel practice of making property of Africans
- 17. Bloodiest day in American history, 23000 soldiers died near this creek in 1 day
- 18. City in Tennessee on the Mississippi river, Grant seiged it and the confederate forces ate their horses, dogs, rats etc....
- 21. This cut grooves in rifle barrels, making them much more accurate
- 23. Church where union armies camped on the Mississippi until confederate forces attacked, 20000 died in two days