Civil WAr Vocab 16-25

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Desertion

Question 2

Slang term for the Confederacy, also a popular Southern song

Answer 2

Dixie

Question 3

The selection of citizens for mandatory military services

Answer 3

Draft of Conscription

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Drill

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Dysentery

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Envelopment

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Emancipation

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Flanks

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Forage

Question 10

Paper money used during the Civil War in the North

Answer 10

Greenback