The civil war

2. Union general who won battles on the western front (1861-1863) before taking command on the eastern front (1864-1865); accepted Lee's surrender
6. President of the Confederate States of America
8. April 1862 Union victory in Tennessee noted for its large number of dead and wounded
12. Union naval commander who took control of New Orleans in 1862
14. 1864 Confederate murder of 300 African American soldiers who had surrendered and should have been taken as prisoners of war
17. a famous African American unit in the Union army; led an attack on Ft. Wagner near Charleston, SC
19. Southern Democrat candidate for President of the United States in the 1860 Election
21. order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in all rebelling states were free
23. first commander of the Union army; fired by Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam for being too cautious
24. Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate Army)
25. Confederate ironclad ship
26. 1862 law that allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union military

1. Union ironclad ship
3. Confederate general during the Battle of Bull Run; later became Robert E. Lee's right-hand man
4. Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in April 1861
5. first major battle of the Civil War won by the Confederates in July 1861; ended the Union's hopes of winning the war quickly
7. nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
9. principle that a person cannot be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
10. the name adopted by the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War
11. Civil War photographer
13. September 1862 battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North; bloodiest single day of fighting during the war
15. Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy through a naval blockade of the southern coast and winning Union control of the Mississippi River to divide the CSA in two
16. an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime
18. Spring 1862 failed Union attempt to capture Richmond led by McClellan stopped by Lee at the Seven Days Battle
20. slave states that did not secede: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
22. a last-ditch plan to save the Union by passing a Constitutional amendment to protect slavery where it existed and extend it west to California south of the 36-30 line