End of the Civil War

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