Civil War Vocab

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  1. 4. An often fatal disease of the intestines, usuallly caused by unsanitary conditions at military camps or battle sites
  2. 5. (usually plural) a destructive action
  3. 7. a knife on the end of a gun
  4. 9. A deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of
  5. 10. American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won
  6. 13. People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war
  7. 14. The most common meal ration during the war, along with hardtack and coffee. The pork was salted to preserve it.
  8. 18. A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War
  9. 20. A ship covered with iron plates and used in the Civil War, as in the famous Merrimac Vs. Monitor, the first ever naval battle between ironclads in 1862; they revolutionized naval warfare
  10. 23. wanted to end slavery
  11. 24. be located at the sides of something or somebody
  12. 26. pea a folk song popular with the confederate soldiers during the civil war
  13. 27. A term used generally to describe the process of adding nutrients to foods, such as the addition of vitamin D to milk.
  14. 30. formal separation from an alliance or federation
  15. 31. Foot soldiers
  16. 32. a person that is the head of something and or leads people
  17. 33. Dead body
  18. 34. type of rifle
  19. 35. a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role
  20. 37. A quarter-inch or half-inch thick hard cracker eaten by Civil War soldiers, also known as biscuits, crackers, or army bread
  21. 38. To leave one's military post, or to run away from battle, often punishable by death.
  22. 40. Descent of the widest diameter of the fetal presenting part to at least a zero station (the level of the ischial spines in the maternal pelvis).
  23. 43. A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
  24. 44. kill a large number of people indiscriminately
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  1. 1. Mutiny
  2. 2. Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war (plural)
  3. 3. (v.) to oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate
  4. 4. (n.) An imperfection, flaw, or blemish of some kind; (v.) to desert a cause or organization
  5. 6. a barrier
  6. 8. Soldiers on horseback
  7. 11. belonging to a period before the war
  8. 12. rebellion
  9. 15. aggresive; eager to fight or quarrel
  10. 16. An overwhelming defeat
  11. 17. (AL) , Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
  12. 18. A dead body
  13. 19. union of 2 or more
  14. 21. Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies
  15. 22. A general term for the United States during the Civil War which also was used to refer to the Northern army.
  16. 25. ` An international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime *
  17. 27. a rapid outburst barrage
  18. 28. a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War
  19. 29. A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States
  20. 36. to attack by surrounding
  21. 39. temporary encampment
  22. 41. structure where arms are kept
  23. 42. a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel
  24. 45. 1. disease due to lack of vitamin C; 2. contemptible; rascally