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Across
  1. 4. – The Northern states that remained loyal to the U.S. government and fought against the Confederacy.
  2. 5. – The site of a pivotal 1863 battle and the location of Lincoln’s famous address.
  3. 7. – The assassin who killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
  4. 10. – The collection of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States.
  5. 11. – The place where the Confederate Army formally surrendered to the Union, ending the Civil War.
  6. 14. – The 13th Constitutional Amendment, which ended slavery in the United States.
Down
  1. 1. – The Union Army’s general who eventually became the 18th President of the United States.
  2. 2. – The location where the Civil War began, with the first shots fired.
  3. 3. – Lincoln’s executive order that declared slaves in Confederate-held territory free.
  4. 6. – The site of the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, fought in 1862.
  5. 7. – A Civil War nurse who went on to found the American Red Cross.
  6. 8. – An abolitionist and leader of the Underground Railroad, also a Union spy.
  7. 9. – The 16th President of the United States who led the Union during the Civil War.
  8. 12. – The President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
  9. 13. – The commanding general of the Confederate Army.