Jocelyns Civil War Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Atlanta was vital because of its position as a center for this means of transportation during the Civil war
  2. 4. The industrial center and transportation hub of Georgia during the Civil War
  3. 7. The most important cash crop in the Confederacy
  4. 8. The president of the Confederacy during the Civil war
  5. 9. Atlanta was surrounded to the Union in this month in 1864
  6. 11. Union general who captured Atlanta
  7. 14. The capitol of Georgia captured by Union troops in 1864
  8. 15. Sherman marched his army across Georgia from Atlanta to this city
  9. 16. The leader of those who opposed to secession at the Georgia Secessionist Convention in 1861
Down
  1. 1. This was the bloodiest battle fought in Georgia during the Civil War
  2. 3. President of the North/Union
  3. 5. Lincoln authorized this measure to keep southern cotton from reaching European markets during the war
  4. 6. The Emancipation Proclamation became law on the first day of this month in 1863
  5. 10. Freeing the slaves
  6. 12. These were the union troops in Andersonville
  7. 13. This means to leave the Union or to commit "state suicide"