Civil War Vocab Flashcards
(25 cards)
A person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of Negro slavery
Abolitionnist
Large, powerful weapons such as cannons 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 the soldier carried his rounds or bullets
Cartridge box
A person killed, wounded, captured, I missing during the war
Casualty
Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit
Cavalry
The liquid drug used to put to sleep wounded soldiers in 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 contraband during the war
Contraband
A Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern secession and clamored for Peace in the war
Copperhead
To spread out armies to create a battle line
Deploy
To leave one’s military post or a battle, often punishable by death.
Desertion
Slang term for the Confederacy, and a popular Southern song
Dixie
The selection of citizens to fight in the war.
Draft of conscription
The process of instruction on how to march and practice military arts as a unit
Drill
An often fatal disease in the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military and battle sites
Dysentery
An attack against the flanks of an enemy’s army, in hopes of encircling it
Envelopment
The formal release of slaves, as it happened in 1863
Emancipation
The sides of an army’s lines of battle
Flanks
A search for food by soldiers often at the expense of the farmers in a battle area
Forage
