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

Slang term for the CSA, also a popular Southern song.

The selection of citizens for mandatory military service.

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

An often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps and battle.

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

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

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

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

Paper money used during the Civil War,in the North.