Unit 6 Review

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  1. 3. A hollow projectile, shot from a cannon.
  2. 6. Final Battle for Robert Shaw and many of the MA 54th.
  3. 7. The largest organizational group of soldiers, made up of one or more corps.
  4. 11. A leave from duty, granted by a superior officer.
  5. 15. A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored.
  6. 16. A draftee.
  7. 19. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
  8. 20. Renown activist, author, abolitionist; fugitive slave
  9. 23. A crop such as tobacco or cotton which was grown to be sold for cash --not grown for food like corn or wheat.
  10. 27. Battle in 1862, bloodiest in the war
  11. 28. Led his contraband army to “forage” for supplies in Darien, GA.
  12. 29. Border-state guerrilla warriors who often clashed with abilitionists.
  13. 30. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports.
  14. 31. A slang term for lice, or occasionally an offensive "Yankee" slang term for Confederate soldiers.
  15. 34. Blocking the supply lines and escape routes of a city to force it to surrender.
  16. 37. Proclamation issued by Lincoln to free the slaves in the Confederacy
  17. 38. Also known as “Moses,” helped the Union Army free slaves at the Raid at Combahee Ferry
  18. 40. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action.
  19. 41. Also called the North or the United States.
  20. 43. The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South.
  21. 44. The type of insurrection that the Proclamation by the Confederate President, General Orders No. 111 warmed against
  22. 45. A flag identifying a regiment or army. The "Color Bearer" was the soldier who carried the flag in battle, which was considered a great honor.
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  1. 1. A very large group of soldiers led by (Union) a major general or (Confederate) a lieutenant general.
  2. 2. Loyal to the government of the United States. Also known as Union, Yankee, or Northern.
  3. 4. Nickname for the Confederate Flag.
  4. 5. Term for a Northerner who opposed the war effort.
  5. 6. The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York was the military school for more than 1,000 officers in both the Union and Confederate armies—including Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.
  6. 8. MA 54th
  7. 9. Another term for slavery in the South: ___________ Institution.
  8. 10. Cannon or other large caliber firearms; a branch of the army armed with cannon. See image»
  9. 12. Confederate President
  10. 13. A ship protected by iron armor.
  11. 14. A new way of conducting war appeared during the Civil War. Instead of focusing only on military targets, armies conducting total war destroyed homes and crops to demoralize and undermine the civilian base of the enemy’s war effort. (Sherman in Georgia or Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, for example.)
  12. 17. United States Colored Troops.
  13. 18. A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States. Also, Union, Federal, or Northern.
  14. 19. Southern, Rebel, “Reb,” or “Sesesh.”
  15. 21. A disease caused by lack of ascorbic acid (found in fresh fruits and vegetables).
  16. 22. also called a "wing".
  17. 24. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
  18. 25. Slaves who ran away from their plantations to Union army camps.
  19. 26. A group of 50 to 100 soldiers led by a captain.
  20. 32. A high-pitched cry that Confederate soldiers would shout when attacking. First heard at First Manassas (First Bull Run) Union troops found the eerie noise unnerving.
  21. 33. To formally approve or sanction.
  22. 34. Also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States of America.
  23. 35. A boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and (West) Virginia to the South. It became a symbolic division between free states and slave states.
  24. 36. A branch of the military mounted on horseback.
  25. 39. Long, cylindrical metal rod used to push the cartridge down the barrel of a musket in preparation for firing.
  26. 42. A place where weapons and other military supplies are manufactured.
  27. 46. Appointed as Colonel of the MA 54th by Andrew.