DESERTION

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

DIXIE

• Slang term for the confederacy, also a popular southern song

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

DYSENTERY

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

ENVELOPMENT

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

EMANCIPATION

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

FLANKS

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

FORAGE

• The search for old by soldiers often at the expense of the farmers in a battle area

GREENBACK

• Paper money used during the civil war

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