Civil War Glossary II Flashcards
Desertion
To leave one’s military post, or to run away from battles, often punishable by death.
Dixie
Slang term for the Confederacy, also a popular southern song.
Draft of conscription
The selection of citizens for mandatory military service.
Drill
The process of instruction recruits how to march and practice the military arts as a unit.
Dysentery
And often fatal disease of the human intestines, usually caused by unsanitary conditions of military camps and battle sites.
Envelopment
An attack against the flanks of an enemy’s army, in hopes of eventually encircling it.
Emancipation
The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 8163.
Flanks
Decides of an army slime in battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides.
Forage
The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of the farmers in a battle area.
Greenback
Paper money used during the Civil War in the North.