PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Abolitionist
a person who believed in abolishing slavery.
artillery
large, powerful weapons such as cannons or mortars.
assassination
the murder of a powerful person such as Abraham Lincoln.
Battery
a unit of four to six cannons or a fortified position where they are placed.
Battle
big combat between two armed forces. engagements and skirmishes are usually smaller scaled.
Blockade
the closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic communication.
Border State
slave owning states that did not secede from the Union: Deleware, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Cartridge Box
a leather box in which the soldier carried his rounds or bullets.
Casualty
a person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war.
Cavalry
soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit.
Chloroform
The liquid drug used to put to sleep wounded soldiers in the war.
CSA
the alliance of 11 southern states to form the Confederate States of America.
Contraband
goods illegally traded during wartime. Slaves were sometimes called contraband during the war.
Copperhead
A Northern Democrat who agreed with southern succession and clamored peace during the war.
Deploy
To spread out armies to create a battle line.
