Early Years of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 1. A Union officer discovered that the Confederate army had divided into ____ parts
  2. 3. I am a warship with protective plates
  3. 5. General Robert E. Lee decided to invade this place when General McClellan was forced to retreat near Richmond.
  4. 6. Lee lost nearly 14,000 men or 1/3 of his army at _______.
  5. 9. Admiral David G. Farragut captured New Orleans. The Union army gained control of almost all of this river.
  6. 10. The capital city of the Confederates
  7. 11. to make stronger; to make more effective
  8. 13. Lee hoped a victory on Union soil would gain support for the south from this place.
  9. 14. I am the general who led the most successful Union army
Down
  1. 2. After thousands of years, the Civil War marked the end of the use of this item.
  2. 4. of greater importance or value; above average
  3. 7. I am the cautious general whom Lincoln was forced to replace
  4. 8. Complained that he would like to borrow McClellan's army.
  5. 12. I am a military term for persons wounded, killed or missing in action
  6. 13. Northern and southern generals both tried to carry the war into _____ territory.