Across
- 2. : To formally charge a public official with misconduct
- 3. : Site of Lee’s surrender
- 6. : Bureau providing aid, schools, and legal protection to freed slaves
- 7. : Peace Democrat who opposed Lincoln’s war policies
- 8. : President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
- 9. : Democrat who supported the war to preserve the Union
- 11. : Confederate commander known for holding his ground at Bull Run
- 13. : Government act allowing paper currency
- 16. : Confederate general and overall commander of the Confederate army
- 18. : Union strategy to blockade ports and split the Confederacy
- 19. : Diplomatic crisis threatening British neutrality
- 20. : President elected after the Compromise of 1877
- 27. : Decree freeing enslaved persons in rebelling states
- 28. : Union admiral who captured New Orleans
- 31. : Authorization given to act as a representative
- 32. : Amendment abolishing slavery
- 34. : Wearing down by constant harassment or attack
- 35. : Lincoln’s speech dedicating a cemetery after the battle
- 36. : Led the failed assault at Gettysburg
- 37. : A person freed from slavery
Down
- 1. : Law dividing South into five military districts
- 4. : Civil-War-era water mine
- 5. : The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
- 10. : Requiring people to serve in the military
- 12. : Military blockade of a city to force surrender
- 14. : Paper money first issued by the Union
- 15. : Union general who became commander of the Union Army
- 17. : Legal order ensuring a lawful imprisonment
- 21. : Strategy of wearing down the enemy
- 22. : President impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act
- 23. : Union general known for his “March to the Sea”
- 24. : A pardon granted to a large group of people
- 25. : Laws used in the South to control freedmen
- 26. : Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection
- 29. : Hard biscuit eaten by soldiers
- 30. : Amendment granting voting rights regardless of race
- 33. : Searching or raiding for food