The Civil War

1. Ship made of iron
3. Successful Union general who attended West Point Military Academy
8. Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled confederate states
11. To leave or withdraw
12. Slave states that remained in the Union
13. People that are wounded or killed
15. Military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.
17. Device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances
18. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides
19. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4th, 1863
20. War between the North and South

2. Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
4. Place where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865
5. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
6. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
7. Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win
9. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else
10. President of the Confederacy
14. The United States
16. President of the United States of America during the Civil War
21. General of the Confederacy