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Civil War Study Guide 2

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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 civilians or mandatory military service.

DRILL

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

DYSENTERY

  • An often fatal disease of human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps in battle sites.
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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 happens in January 1863.
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FLANKS

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

  • To search for food by soldiers often at the expense of farmers in a battle area.
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GREENBACK

  • Paper money used during the Civil War in the north.
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