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SS Civil war Vocab#2

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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.
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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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GREENBACK

  • Paper money used during the civil war in the north.
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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 line in battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides.
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FORAGE

  • The search for food by solider's often at the expense of the farmers in a battle area.
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