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Civil War #2

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DESERTION

  • To leave one’s military post, or to run away from battles, often punishable by death
Photo by Al Jazeera English
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DIXIE

  • Slang term for the Confederacy, also a popular Southern song
Photo by Harshil Gudka
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DRAFT OF CONSCRIPTION

  • The selection of citizen for mandatory military service
Photo by nolnet
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DRILL

  • The process of instruction recruits how to march and practice the military arts as a unit
Photo by Samuel M. Livingston
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DYSENTERY

  • An often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by by unsanitary conditions of military camps and battle sites
Photo by mrbill78636
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ENVELOPMENT

  • An attack against the flanks of an enemy’s army, in hopes eventually encircling it
Photo by Joanna Kosinska
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EMANCIPATION

  • The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863
Photo by Allen Gathman
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FLANKS

  • The sides of an army’s line in a battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides.
Photo by U.S. Army Europe
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FORAGE

  • The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of the farmer
Photo by say_cheddar
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GREENBACK

  • Paper money used during the Civil War in the North
Photo by Damian Gadal

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