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A person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of Negro slavery
Abolitionist
Large, powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars
Artillery
the murder of prominent person such as president Lincoln
Assassination
A unit of four or six cannons , or fortify position on which they are placed
Battery
Large scale combat between two arm forces skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer
Battle
The closing off using naval forces of a city or other area traffic in communication
Blockage
Slave owning states that did not secede from the union Delaware Kentucky and Missouri
Border state
A leather box in which the soldier carried his rounds or bullets
Cartridge box
A person killed wounded or captured or missing during the war
Casualty
Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit
Calvary
The liquid drug use to put to sleep wounded soldiers in the war
Anesthetize
Chloroform
The alliance 11 southern states to form the Confederate states of America
Confederacy or CSA
Goods illegally traded during wartime slaves were sometimes called _______ during the war
Contraband
A Northern Democrats agreed with Southern secession and clamored for peace during the war
Copperhead
Do you spread out or miss you create a battle
Deploy
