Civil War Vocab 1 Flashcards
A person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of Negro slavery
Abolishonist
Large, powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars
Artillery
The murder of a prominent person such as President Lincoln
Assassination
A unit of four or six cannons, or a fortified position on which they are placed
Battery
Large scale combat between two armed forces (skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer)
Battle
The closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication
Blockade
Slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri
Border state
A leather box in which a solider would carry his rounds or bullets
Cartridge Box
A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war; someone who is not able to fight in the war
Casualty
Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as an unit
Cavalry
The liquid drug used to anesthetize (put to sleep) wounded soldiers in the war
Chloroform
The alliance of 11 Southern states to form the Confederate States of America
Confederacy or CSA
Goods illegally traded during wartime. Slaves were sometimes called _______________ during the war
Contraband
A Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern secession and clamored for peace during the war
Copperhead
To spread out armies to create a battle line
Deploy
