CW Vocab. Words
Published on Mar 24, 2016
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abolitionist
A person who believed in wiping out negro slavery
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Artillery
Large powerful weapons such as cannons or mortars
Photo by Daniel Peckham
Assassination
The murder of a person
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Battery
A unit of four or six cannons or a fortified position on which they are placed
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Battle
Large scale combat between two armed forces
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Blockade
Closing off, using naval forces, to stop traffic or communication
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Border state
Slave owning states that did not secede from the union or states that bordered the two sides
Photo by Eric Fischer
Casualty
A person killed, wounded, missing or captured during the war
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Calvary
Soldiers mounted on horseback as a unit in the war
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Chloroform
A liquid drug used to put wounded soldiers to sleep during the war
Photo by Ron Cogswell
Confederacy
The alliance of 11 states to form the confederate states of America
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Contraband
Goods illegally traded during the war
Photo by Leo Reynolds
Copperhead
A person who lived in the north but agreed with the south and wanted peace in the war
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Deploy
To spread out armies to create a battle line
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Desertion
To leave military post or run away during battle
Dixie
Slang term for a confederate also a popular southern song
Draft of conscription
The selection of citizens for mandatory military service
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Drill
To march and practice the military arts as a unit
Dysentery
Fatal disease of the intestines caused by unsanitary conditions
Envelopment
An attack against the flanks of an enemy's army, hoping to encircle it
Emancipation
A order made by Lincoln to free slaves
(it didn't really work at first)
Flanks
The sides of an army's battle line
Forage
The search of food by soldiers
Greenback
Paper money used in the civil war by northerners
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Hardtack
A thick, hard, tasteless cracker eaten by civil war soldiers
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Infantry
Foot soldiers marching and fighting together
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Ironclad
An Iron ship used in the civil war
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Main attack
The big, most focused
Attack against the enemy's most critical or weakest point
Minie ball
The slandered rifle bullet that was much more accurate
Picket
One or more soldiers on guard duties always watchful for enemy approach
Rank
Your importance in leadership in the war
Rations
Military term for food
Any way of saying a confederate
A slang term for a person fighting in the south
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