Across
- 3. To place within a trench, or ditch, for defense; to place in a strong defensive position
- 6. To go in the opposite direction
- 8. Reward or payment
- 9. To leave behind or give up
- 10. A system of selecting people for required military service
- 12. Events that occur one after the other
- 15. An alternative or replacement
- 17. Stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river
- 20. A strategy of bringing war to the entire society; not just the military
- 21. State on the border between the North and South; Delaware; Maryland; Kentucky, and Missouri
- 23. To make stronger
- 24. A soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle
- 25. A warship equipped with iron plating for protection
Down
- 1. Decree issued by President Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion on January 1, 1863
- 2. To find meaning in something
- 4. A careful plan or method
- 5. To compare with respect to differences
- 7. To formally join a military force
- 11. To meet; to come face-to-face with
- 13. Livestock
- 14. Refusal to give in
- 16. The side or edge of a military formation
- 18. A serious punishment or scolding
- 19. A legal writ, or order, that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court
- 22. Paper money issued by the United States government