TN History Unit 6

2. Confederate General who was General Lee's "right arm."
3. The Confederacy started the Civil War when they attacked this fort.
6. At the Battle of Gettysburg, this charge resulted in a loss of half of the soldiers who participated in it.
9. Was president of the United States during the Civil War.
13. This was the bloodiest battle of the war and the turning point of the Civil War.
15. This battle had the single bloodiest day of fighting during the Civil War.
17. Confederate General who founded the Ku Klux Klan.
18. Became the top general of the Confederacy after Virginia seceded.
20. Northern Democrats that supported the Union but wanted to preserve slavery.

1. The Union's final top general that defeated the Confederacy's General Lee.
4. This decree ended slavery in the Southern states.
5. This is the courthouse Lee surrendered to Grant and ended the Civil War.
7. The government of the states that seceded from the Union.
8. The ineffective Union General that was fired for calling Lincoln a "gorilla."
10. The right to know what you are being charged with.
11. This city in western Tennessee was virtually abandoned to the Union after the Battle of Shiloh and the siege of the Corinth railroad junction.
12. This actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
14. The act of withdrawing formally from membership of the Union.
16. General Winfield Scott came up with this plan to take New Orleans and the Mississippi River.
19. This middle Tennessee city fell to the Union quickly after the Union captured the Cumberland River at Fort Donelson.