First 15 Flashcards
Abolitionist
A person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of Nergo slavery
Artillery
Large,powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars
Assassination
The murder of a prominent person such as President Lincoln
Battery
A unit of four or six cannons, or a fortified position on which they are placed
Battle
Large scale combat between two armed forces (skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer)
Blockade
The closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication
Border States
Slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union:Delaware,Kentucky, and Missouri
Cartridge Box
A leather box in which he solider carried his rounds or bullets
Casualty
A person killed, wounded,captured, or missing during the war
Chloroforme
The liquid drug used to anesthetize (put to sleep) wounded souliers in war
Confederacy or CSA
The alliance of 11 southern states form the Confederate States of America
Contraband
Goods illegally traded dur wartime. Slaves were sometimes called contraband during war
Copperhead
A Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern secession and clamored for peace during the war
Deploy
To spread out armies to create a battle line
Cavalry
Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit
