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Civil War Vocabulary 2

Civil war 1862 Vocabulary.

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 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.
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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

  • On attack against the flanks of an enemies army, in hopes of eventually encircling it.

EMANCIPATION

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

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

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

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