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Desertion
To leave one's military post, or to run away from battles, often punishable by death

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Dixie
Slang term for the confederacy, also a popular Southern song

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Draft of conscription
The selection of citizens for mandatory military service.

Drill
The process of instruction recruits how to march and practice the military arts as a unit

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Dysentery
an often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps and battle sites

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Envelopment
An attack against the flanks of an enemy's army, in hopes of eventually encircling it.

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Emancipation
The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863

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Flanks
The sides of an army's line in battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides

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Forage
The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of the farmers in a battle area

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Greenback
Paper money used during the Civil War in the North