Civil War Word Search
This Civil War word search covers the war between the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865: the first shots at Fort Sumter, the battles of Antietam, Vicksburg and Gettysburg, generals Grant, Lee and Sherman, and the surrender at Appomattox.
The war began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Eleven Southern states had seceded or soon would. Antietam, fought in Maryland in September 1862, is still the bloodiest single day in American history, with about 23,000 men killed, wounded or missing. The Union held the field, and five days later Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
In July 1863 the Union won at Gettysburg and, a day later, took Vicksburg, which gave it control of the Mississippi River. The first battle between ironclads, the Monitor against the CSS Virginia, built on the hull of the old Merrimack, ended in a draw in March 1862. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865.
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15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Civil War has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Antietam
- Appomattox
- Artillery
- Atlanta
- Bayonet
- Blockade
- Blue
- Bugle
- Bull Run
- Cannon
- Canteen
- Cavalry
- Clara Barton
- Confederacy
- Davis
- Draft
- Drummer Boy
- Fort Sumter
- Fredericksburg
- Gettysburg
- Grant
- Gray
- Infantry
- Ironclad
- Lee
- McClellan
- Meade
- Merrimack
- Monitor
- Picket
- Regiment
- Richmond
- Rifle
- Secession
- Sherman
- Shiloh
- Stonewall
- Surrender
- Union
- Vicksburg