US CIVIL WAR - BY: RAMIRO G

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Across
  1. 6. name of the new nation formed by the seceding southern states.
  2. 7. This woman was know as the "Angel of the Battlefield" during the war and founded the American Red Cross after the war.
  3. 9. United States fort in Charleston harbor that was fired on by the Confederates.
  4. 10. Issued by President Lincoln in 1862. It was created to free all the slaves in slave states only.
  5. 11. The first major battle of the war.
  6. 12. Grant captures it, Mississippi river was under union control.
Down
  1. 1. Union Plan by Winfield Scott, strategy to blockade the Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean.
  2. 2. The battle in September of 1862 ended in a draw, but 23,000 men were dead or wounded-making it the single bloodiest day of the war.
  3. 3. President of the United States who took office in 1861.
  4. 4. President of the Confederate States of America.
  5. 5. The commanding general of the Confederate forces.
  6. 8. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at a memorial for Union soldiers that died at the Battle of Gettysburg