Civil War

Question 1

Artillary

Answer 1

Large, powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars.

Question 2

Assassination

Answer 2

The murder of a prominent person such as President Lincoln.

Question 3

Battery

Answer 3

A unit of four or six cannons, or fortified position on which they are placed.

Question 4

Battle

Answer 4

Large-scale combat between two armed forces (skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer)

Question 5

Blockade

Answer 5

The closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication.

Question 6

Border state

Answer 6

Slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.

Question 7

Cartridge box

Answer 7

A leather box in which the soldier carried his rounds or bullets.

Question 8

Casualty

Answer 8

A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during a war.

Question 9

Calvary

Answer 9

Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit.

Question 10

Chloroform

Answer 10

The liquid drug used to anesthetize (put to sleep) wounded soldiers in the war.

Question 11

Confederacy or CSA

Answer 11

The alliance of 11 Southern states to form the Confederate States of America.

Question 12

Contraband

Answer 12

Goods illegally traded during wartime. Slaves were sometimes called contraband during the war.

Question 13

Copperhead

Answer 13

A Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern secession and clamored for peace during the war.

Question 14

Deploy

Answer 14

To spread out armies to create a battle line.

Question 15

Desertion

Answer 15

To leave one’s military post, or to turn away from battle, often punishable by death.

Question 16

Dixie

Answer 16

Slang term for the Confederacy, also a popular song.

Question 17

Draft or Conscription

Answer 17

The selection of citizens for mandatory military service.

Question 18

Drill

Answer 18

The process of instructing recruits how to march and practice the military arts as a unit.

Question 19

Dysentery

Answer 19

An often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps and battles sites.

Question 20

Envelopment

Answer 20

An attack against the flanks of an enemy

Question 21

Emancipation

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Flanks

Answer 22

The sides of an army’s line in battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides.

Question 23

Abolitionist

Answer 23

A person who believed in the abolishment of Negro slavery.

Question 24

Forage

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Greenback

Answer 25

Paper money used during the Civil War in the North.

Question 26

Hardtack

Answer 26

A quarter-inch or half-inch thick hard cracker eaten by CivilWar soldiers. Also known as biscuits, crackers, and army bread.

Question 27

Haversack

Answer 27

Cloth bag used by soldier to carry rations and food.

Question 28

Infantry

Answer 28

Foot soldiers marching and fighting together. The vast majority of Civil War soldiers were infantry.

Question 29

Ironclad

Answer 29

A ship covered with iron plates and used in the Civil War, as in the