Mod18 Crossword

4. volunteer who organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield
9. carried out the Union plan to destroy southern railroads and industries. He practiced total war.
10. destroying civilian and economic resources
11. commander of the Confederate Army
14. the first major battle of the Civil War
15. 15,000 Confederate soldiers marched up Cemetery Ridge
17. Lincoln’s short famous speech dedicating the Gettysburg battlefield as a cemetery
19. slave states that did not join the Confederacy-Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
20. small town where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War

1. order written by Lincoln to free the Confederate slaves
2. constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
3. key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates
5. military unit that consisted mostly of free African Americans
6. escaped slaves
7. led to the Union army gaining greater control of the Mississippi River valley
8. bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and of US history
12. federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War
13. commander of forces in the Union’s western campaign and later commander of all Union forces
16. ships heavily armored with iron
18. General Grant cut off the city and shelled it repeatedly until residents ran out of food and surrendered