Across
- 4. Twisted railroad rails destroyed by Union troops
- 7. Lincoln’s wife present at Ford’s Theatre
- 9. Cabinet member who recorded Lincoln’s death
- 10. The Southern states that seceded from the Union
- 12. The broader meaning of Union victory beyond preserving the nation
- 14. Confederate general who surrendered at war’s end
- 15. Companion of the Lincolns at the theater
- 18. Site of Lincoln’s assassination
- 19. President of the Confederacy
- 21. The Northern states fighting to preserve the nation
- 22. Village where Lee surrendered to Grant in April 1865
- 28. Union general who accepted Lee’s surrender
- 29. Vice president who became president after Lincoln’s death
- 30. Owner of the house where surrender terms were written
Down
- 1. Building where Lincoln died
- 2. Strategy targeting both armies and civilian resources
- 3. Site of the long siege that wore down Lee’s army
- 5. Phrase shouted by Booth after the shooting
- 6. Symbolic end of the Civil War
- 8. Actor who assassinated Lincoln
- 11. Lincoln’s speech emphasizing humility and judgment
- 13. The postwar effort to rebuild and reunify the nation
- 16. President who led the Union through the Civil War
- 17. Officer injured while trying to stop Booth
- 20. General known for his March to the Sea
- 23. Secretary of War who managed the crisis after the assassination
- 24. Formerly enslaved people whose future became a central question
- 25. Confederate capital that fell in April 1865
- 26. Campaign that devastated Georgia’s infrastructure
- 27. City captured by Sherman in 1864