Civil War Glossary 2

Question 1

Desertion

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Dixie

Answer 2

Slang term for the confederacy, also a popular Southern song

Question 3

Draft of conscription

Answer 3

The selection of citizens for mandatory military service.

Question 4

Drill

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Dysentery

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Envelopment

Answer 6

An attack against the flanks of an enemy’s army, in hopes of eventually encircling it.

Question 7

Emancipation

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Flanks

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Forage

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Greenback

Answer 10

Paper money used during the Civil war in the North.