Civil War Glossary

Question 1

Abolitionist

Answer 1

A person who believed in abolishment or abolition of Negro slavery

Question 2

Artillery

Answer 2

Large, powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars

Question 3

Assasination

Answer 3

The murder of prominent person such as President Lincoln

Question 4

Battery

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Battle

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Blockade

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Border state

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Cartridge Box

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Casualty

Answer 9

A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war

Question 10

Cavalry

Answer 10

Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit

Question 11

Chloroform

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Confederacy or CSA

Answer 12

The alliance of 11 southern states to form the Confederate States of America

Question 13

Contraband

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Copperhead

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Deploy

Answer 15

To spread out armies to create a battle line