| 1860s political nickname | 24 |
| 1860s org. | 10 |
| 1860s novel that is the basis for this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| 1860s letters | 13 |
| 1860s Jefferson contemporary | 28 |
| 1860s insignia | 14 |
| 1860s initials | 14 |
| 1860s Grays | 11 |
| 1860s govt. for four years | 26 |
| 1860s govt. | 11 |
| 1860s epic set in the Napoleonic Era | 36 |
| 1860s actress ___ Isaacs Menken | 31 |
| 1860s abbr. | 11 |
| 1860–65 org. | 19 |
| 1860's White House name | 27 |
| 1860's Southerners | 22 |
| 1860's insignia | 19 |
| 1860's initials | 19 |
| 1860 presidential candidate who won Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia | 69 |
| 1860 campaign nickname | 22 |
| 186,000 miles per second | 24 |
| 1858 rhetoric between Lincoln and Douglas | 41 |
| 1858 debater | 12 |
| 1857-58 western rebellion | 25 |
| 1857's _____ Scott Decision | 31 |
| 1856 Stowe novel | 16 |
| 1856 political novel | 20 |
| 1856 litigant Scott | 19 |
| 1856 installation | 17 |
| 1856 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel | 32 |
| 1856 antislavery novel | 22 |
| 1855 Tennyson work | 18 |
| 1853-56 War | 11 |
| 1852-meter measures | 19 |
| 1852 loser to Pierce | 20 |
| 1852 eruptor | 12 |
| 1852 Dickens classic | 20 |
| 1852 book | 9 |
| 1850s Indian soldier | 20 |
| 1850s European war involving Canadian forces | 44 |
| 1850s bonanza | 13 |
| 1850's Republican rallying cry | 34 |
| 1850 American literature classic | 32 |
| 185-country fiscal agcy. | 24 |
| 1849 love poem | 14 |
| 1849 Herman Melville book | 25 |
| 1849 happening | 14 |
| 1849 fabric attachment | 22 |
| 1849 event | 10 |
| 1849 California event | 21 |
| 1848 presidential candidate after whom eight U.S. counties are named | 68 |
| 1848 manifesto co-author | 24 |
| 1847 tale of the South Seas | 27 |
| 1847 story of the South Seas | 28 |
| 1847 South Seas tale | 20 |
| 1847 South Seas adventure | 25 |
| 1847 sequel set in the South Seas | 33 |
| 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" | 57 |
| 1847 novel subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" | 76 |
| 1847 novel set on Tahiti | 24 |
| 1847 novel set in Tahiti | 24 |
| 1847 novel set in part aboard a whaler | 38 |
| 1847 novel involving a mutiny | 29 |
| 1847 novel based on its author's time in the Society Islands | 64 |
| 1847 novel about a mutiny | 25 |
| 1847 Melville work | 18 |
| 1847 Melville novel | 19 |
| 1847 Melville book | 18 |
| 1847 Herman Melville novel | 26 |
| 1847 "Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" | 58 |
| 1846 novel set on an island of cannibals | 40 |
| 1846 Johann Galle discovery | 27 |
| 1846 book subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life" | 57 |
| 1844-59 king of Scandinavia | 27 |
| 1844-1926 painter | 17 |
| 1844 Verdi work | 15 |
| 1844 Verdi premiere | 19 |
| 1844 Verdi opera | 16 |
| 1843 work in five "staves" | 36 |
| 1841 ballet | 11 |
| 1841 Adolphe Adam ballet | 24 |
| 1841 Adam ballet | 16 |
| 1840s-'50s antislavery party | 32 |
| 1840s president John | 20 |
| 1840s president | 15 |
| 1840s First Family | 18 |
| 1840s abolitionist group | 24 |
| 1840-1926 painter | 17 |
| 1839 slave mutiny ship | 22 |
| 1839 revolt site | 16 |
| 1839 mutiny site | 16 |
| 1837 literary collection | 24 |
| 1836 Texas siege target | 23 |
| 1836 Texas siege site | 21 |
| 1836 siege site, with "the" | 37 |
| 1836 siege site | 15 |
| 1836 siege setting | 18 |
| 1836 siege leader | 17 |
| 1836 battle site (with "the") | 39 |
| 1836 battle site with The | 26 |