the civil war crossword

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“Grief and Pride rule the hour..”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you know...

  • How the similarity of battle flags confused friend and foe at 1st Bull Run
  • How both sides could declare victory in the bloody chaos of Shiloh
  • Which fleeing CSA politico was rumored to have attempted escape while dressed in women's clothing
  • Which baseball great ordered the first Union cannon fire at Ft Sumter
  • How McClellan obtained Lee's crucial Special Order 191 before Antietam and three free cigars
  • The frequency of "French leave," or desertions, in the armies
  • What former slave worked in and spied from Davis' Confederate White House
  • What Gettysburg assault marked "the high water mark of the Confederacy"
  • Which generals were known as the "Young Napoleon" and "Old Brains"
  • Which Union general ordered his soldiers to salute the surrendering Confederates
  • Which armies first used submarines, aerial (balloon) observation, psych ops, and steam-and-steel warships
  • The sole Union politico Sherman refused to shake hands with after the war
  • What British, not Southern, city was the center of CSA naval shipbuilding
  • The camp diseases that took more lives than combat wounds

Test your knowledge!


ACROSS
1. Boy Stuart retrieved a nest of these 5. Stuart's 1st ride around McClellan was about one ___ miles long 9. After graduation, Jeff Davis was assigned to this fort in the MI territory: ___bago 10. Month of the Battle of Cedar Creek (abbr) 11. Before the war, the Van Lews hosted a reading by Poe of his classic "The ___" 12. CSA secret weapon first heard at the 1st Bull Run (2) 15. Called Reinzi when Sheridan made his ride in Oct 1864, his name was changed to Winchester 16. Political cartoonist and war correspondent: Thomas ___ 18. Sherman earned many at USMA 22. Captured 4 CSA colors at Pickett's Charge: Arthur ___ 24. River framing Old Point in VA 27. After his first battles, Sherman was appointed to this Ft Sumter hero: Gen ___son 30. Elizabeth Van Lew worked with several loyalists including this Richmond chief detective: Phillip ___ 33. In May 1865, the Armies of the Potomac, TN and GA participated in the ___ Review after which the volunteer army was disbanded 34. Where author Henry Adams spent the war (abbr) 35. Small sailing ships weighted with rocks and sunk at the entrances to Southern harbors: ___ fleets 37. The Wilderness marks the 1st time the Union did not do this in defeat 38. Compared to Grant's terms of surrender, Sherman's were this

DOWN
1. Led Sherman's right wing in the March to the Sea: Gen Oliver O ___ 2. Creek between Herr and McPherson ridges key at Gettysburg: Willoughby ___ 3. Jackson's right-hand man at Shenandoah: Richard ___ 4. Wrote the novel Grace King called "the hideous, black, dragonlike book that hovered on the horizon of every Southern child" 5. Site of Louisa May Alcott's first nursing job: Union ___ Hospital 6. Before Lee's surrender, Chesnut fled Richmond for this Carolina 7. Grant held a Council of War to discuss attacking Ft Donelson on the Cumberland ___ 8. "Richmond Examiner" lead editorialist: John Moncure ___ 13. His troops killed Dahlgren: Gen RLT ___ 14. Won the first day at Gettysburg with his piecemeal attacks 17. Sole Native American CSA general, a Cherokee: Stand Wa___ 18. Stuart to his men: "Go back! I had rather ___ than be whipped" 19. Led a brigade in AP Hill's Light Division during the 1862 campaigns: Gen ___cy Gregg 20. CSA spy Belle Boyd's most celebrated act of military service was during the Battle of Front ___ 21. Led a brigade in Pickett's Charge: Gen William Richard ___ 23. Charlottesville school that became a wartime med center (abbr) 25. NC Whig who offered a 2nd amendment to the 1848 Mexican War treaty: George Edmond ___ 26. Condition in which Sherman traveled to his 1st assignment: "in ___" 28. Brown's and Davis' relations were radically changed by Davis' determination to enforce this law 29. In the Union's assault on Braxton Bragg at Chattanooga, Confederates held Missionary ___ 30. In Sept 1861, the CSA lost western VA after Lee failed at this "Mountain" 31. His Union army occupied the Shenandoah Valley in spring 1864: Gen Franz ___ 32. CSA diplomatic duo captured off the Cuban coast en route to Europe: ___ and Slidell 36. Blacks comprised slightly more than this percentage of the total Northern population


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