Unit 8: Civil War

2. Confederate general during many important battles of the Civil War
4. six-week blockade of Vicksburg that starved the city into surrender
5. the freeing of slaves
7. strategy in which both civilian and military resources are destroyed
8. the place where Lee surrendered to Grant
9. speech in which Lincoln praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the war
10. battle in Maryland that resulted in Lee’s retreat to Virginia

1. Union general whose troops won several important battles on southern soil and in the western campaign
3. federal post in Charleston, South Carolina, that surrendered to the Confederacy; marked the beginning of the Civil War
6. battle in which Union troops gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley