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Civil War12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 3 Brass horn that sounded calls to camp and charge
  • 5 Naval strategy that choked off southern ports
  • 8 Virginia courthouse site of Lee's surrender
  • 10 Charleston harbor fort where fighting began in 1861
  • 12 The eleven states that seceded
  • 14 Maryland creek that names the war's bloodiest single day
  • 15 President who led the Union through the conflict

Down

  • 1 Harriet who guided people to freedom and scouted for the Union
  • 2 The northern side, also called the Federals
  • 4 Formal withdrawal of a state from the nation
  • 6 Armored warship such as the Monitor
  • 7 Pennsylvania town where a three-day battle turned the tide
  • 9 Union general who later became president
  • 11 Movement to end slavery
  • 13 Heavy artillery piece rolled onto the battlefield
  • 16 Soldiers who fought on horseback

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Civil War1T2U3BUGLENBIM4S5BLOCKADE6INNCREOSN7GSCEILT8APPOMATTOXNDY9G10SUMTER11ABABUN12CONFEDERACYTLGI13C14ANTIETAMINON15LIN16COLNOANVALRY
  1. 1 down: TUBMAN. Harriet who guided people to freedom and scouted for the Union
  2. 2 down: UNION. The northern side, also called the Federals
  3. 3 across: BUGLE. Brass horn that sounded calls to camp and charge
  4. 4 down: SECESSION. Formal withdrawal of a state from the nation
  5. 5 across: BLOCKADE. Naval strategy that choked off southern ports
  6. 6 down: IRONCLAD. Armored warship such as the Monitor
  7. 7 down: GETTYSBURG. Pennsylvania town where a three-day battle turned the tide
  8. 8 across: APPOMATTOX. Virginia courthouse site of Lee's surrender
  9. 9 down: GRANT. Union general who later became president
  10. 10 across: SUMTER. Charleston harbor fort where fighting began in 1861
  11. 11 down: ABOLITION. Movement to end slavery
  12. 12 across: CONFEDERACY. The eleven states that seceded
  13. 13 down: CANNON. Heavy artillery piece rolled onto the battlefield
  14. 14 across: ANTIETAM. Maryland creek that names the war's bloodiest single day
  15. 15 across: LINCOLN. President who led the Union through the conflict
  16. 16 down: CAVALRY. Soldiers who fought on horseback
Civil War123456789101112131415

Across

  • 1 Brass horn that sounded calls to camp and charge
  • 4 Charleston harbor fort where fighting began in 1861
  • 7 The eleven states that seceded
  • 8 Harriet who guided people to freedom and scouted for the Union
  • 11 Heavy artillery piece rolled onto the battlefield
  • 12 Movement to end slavery
  • 13 Naval strategy that choked off southern ports

Down

  • 2 Union general who later became president
  • 3 Virginia courthouse site of Lee's surrender
  • 4 Formal withdrawal of a state from the nation
  • 5 Pennsylvania town where a three-day battle turned the tide
  • 6 Armored warship such as the Monitor
  • 9 Maryland creek that names the war's bloodiest single day
  • 10 The northern side, also called the Federals
  • 14 President who led the Union through the conflict
  • 15 Soldiers who fought on horseback

Print the page above, or take the medium grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Civil War1BU2GLERA3ANP4SUMTERP5G6IE7CONFEDERACYMTOE8TUBMANTNS9ATYCSN10UTSLIT11CANNONB12ABOLITIONIXUDNEORTNG13B14LO15CKADEIAMNVCAOLLRNY
  1. 1 across: BUGLE. Brass horn that sounded calls to camp and charge
  2. 2 down: GRANT. Union general who later became president
  3. 3 down: APPOMATTOX. Virginia courthouse site of Lee's surrender
  4. 4 across: SUMTER. Charleston harbor fort where fighting began in 1861
  5. 4 down: SECESSION. Formal withdrawal of a state from the nation
  6. 5 down: GETTYSBURG. Pennsylvania town where a three-day battle turned the tide
  7. 6 down: IRONCLAD. Armored warship such as the Monitor
  8. 7 across: CONFEDERACY. The eleven states that seceded
  9. 8 across: TUBMAN. Harriet who guided people to freedom and scouted for the Union
  10. 9 down: ANTIETAM. Maryland creek that names the war's bloodiest single day
  11. 10 down: UNION. The northern side, also called the Federals
  12. 11 across: CANNON. Heavy artillery piece rolled onto the battlefield
  13. 12 across: ABOLITION. Movement to end slavery
  14. 13 across: BLOCKADE. Naval strategy that choked off southern ports
  15. 14 down: LINCOLN. President who led the Union through the conflict
  16. 15 down: CAVALRY. Soldiers who fought on horseback
Civil War123456789101112131415

Across

  • 1 Harriet who guided people to freedom and scouted for the Union
  • 4 Union general who later became president
  • 6 Virginia courthouse site of Lee's surrender
  • 9 The eleven states that seceded
  • 10 Charleston harbor fort where fighting began in 1861
  • 11 Movement to end slavery
  • 15 Soldiers who fought on horseback

Down

  • 2 Maryland creek that names the war's bloodiest single day
  • 3 Heavy artillery piece rolled onto the battlefield
  • 4 Pennsylvania town where a three-day battle turned the tide
  • 5 Naval strategy that choked off southern ports
  • 7 Formal withdrawal of a state from the nation
  • 8 The northern side, also called the Federals
  • 12 President who led the Union through the conflict
  • 13 Armored warship such as the Monitor
  • 14 Brass horn that sounded calls to camp and charge

Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Civil War1TUBM2ANNT3CI4GRANTE5BENTLTN6APPOMATTOXMCYNKSAB7S8UDUE9CONFEDERACYIGEOSN10SUMTERIO11ABO12LIT13IONIR14BNOUCNGO15CAVALRYLLENAD
  1. 1 across: TUBMAN. Harriet who guided people to freedom and scouted for the Union
  2. 2 down: ANTIETAM. Maryland creek that names the war's bloodiest single day
  3. 3 down: CANNON. Heavy artillery piece rolled onto the battlefield
  4. 4 across: GRANT. Union general who later became president
  5. 4 down: GETTYSBURG. Pennsylvania town where a three-day battle turned the tide
  6. 5 down: BLOCKADE. Naval strategy that choked off southern ports
  7. 6 across: APPOMATTOX. Virginia courthouse site of Lee's surrender
  8. 7 down: SECESSION. Formal withdrawal of a state from the nation
  9. 8 down: UNION. The northern side, also called the Federals
  10. 9 across: CONFEDERACY. The eleven states that seceded
  11. 10 across: SUMTER. Charleston harbor fort where fighting began in 1861
  12. 11 across: ABOLITION. Movement to end slavery
  13. 12 down: LINCOLN. President who led the Union through the conflict
  14. 13 down: IRONCLAD. Armored warship such as the Monitor
  15. 14 down: BUGLE. Brass horn that sounded calls to camp and charge
  16. 15 across: CAVALRY. Soldiers who fought on horseback

About Civil War

The American Civil War ran from 1861 to 1865, opening with the bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and closing with Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. The clues here reach across the whole conflict: the single bloodiest day at Antietam, the Union blockade of Southern ports, ironclad warships that made wooden navies obsolete, and Harriet Tubman, who guided people out of slavery and later scouted for the Union Army. Abolition and secession sit alongside the bugle and the cavalry horse.

Reach for this when a middle school history class has finished a unit on the 1860s and needs the names and places to stick.

What is in this crossword

An 18 by 28 crossword with 7 across and 9 down, on the subject of Civil War.

Grid
18 x 28
Across
7
Down
9
Longest answer
CONFEDERACY (11 letters)

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