Civil War Crossword Puzzle

4. In March 1862 in northwest Arkansas, despite being outnumbered the Union forces won this battle?
6. Some 3,000 women served as this in the Union army?
9. Other than caring for wounded soldiers, women during the Civil War were also?
10. Known as the “angel of the battlefield” and founded the American Red Cross?
15. President Abraham Lincoln referred to this woman as, “the little lady who made this big war.”?
18. In July 1863, this Massachusetts regiment consisting of mostly free African Americans, led a heroic charge on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner?
21. The Civil War gave birth to an army unit devoted to communications?
22. This General wanted to break the South’s will to fight by marching Union troops through the heart of the Confederacy?
23. Gen. Grant experienced his worst defeat at this battle?
24. The admission of this state to the Union would upset the balance between the North and the South?
25. Women who fought in the war were often disguised as this?

1. Anti-Slavery northerners formed this new party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso?
2. The largest and bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
3. An Abolitionist from New England who was determined to “fight fire with fire” and to “strike terror in the hearts of the pro-slavery people.”
5. A 50-minute battle where more than half of its southern soldiers were lost, when troops tried to cross Emmitsburg Road to attack the Union position?
7. Women’s role in the Civil War helped with this movement?
8. In the South, she established a small hospital in Richmond, Virginia, which became a major army hospital.
11. She returned to the South 19 times, leading her family and more than 300 slaves to freedom?
12. This Doctrine put the slavery questions back in the hands of American citizens?
13. This case took the power away from Congress to ban slavery in the territories?
14. This First Lady had four brothers who fought for the Confederacy?
16. Some considered this speech to be a call for war by Abraham Lincoln in 1858?
17. The pro-slavery attack, where one man was killed in May 1856 became known as?
19. In the 1864 election, Lincoln suggested rewarding African Americans soldiers by giving them the right to?
20. With the capture of this city, it showed that progress was being made in defeating the South?