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