| A | B |
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| deploy | spread out armies to create a battle line |
| CSA or Confederate States of America | Alliance of 11 southern states |
| Contraband | good illegally traded during wartime |
| chloroform | liquid used to anesthesize (put to sleep) wounded soldiers before surgery |
| copperhead | Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern Secession and clamored for peace during the war |
| drill | process of instructing new recruits to march and practice as a unit |
| Dixie | slang term for the CSA, also a popular Southern song |
| Desert | To leave one's military post or run away from battle |
| Draft | Selection of citizens for required military service also called conscription |
| dyssentery | Often fatal disease of the intestines, caused by unsanitary conditions in camps and battle sites |
| Envelopment | Military tactic to surround the enemy using double flanking maneuvers |
| Flanks | Sides of a batle line |
| Forage | To gather food from the countryside |
| Emancipation | Freeing slaves by an official act |
| Greenbacks | Government money issued by the Union during the Civil War: it was not backed 100% by gold |
| Haversack | Cloth bag used by soldiers |
| Infantry | Largest part of the Army is made up of foot soldiers |
| Ironclads | Monitor and Merrimac were metal-covered ships which made the day of wooden ships obsolete |
| Hardtack | Cracker-like basic food issued to soldiers |
| Main Attack | Battle maneuver where the army's force is concentrated at the oposing host |
| Housewife | soldier's sewing kit |
| Rations | Food issued to soldiers |
| Minie Ball | New "bullet" used in rifles |
| Rank | Military chain of comand and responsibility |
| Picket | Sentry or soldier on guard suty |
| Butternut | Slang names for CSA soldier, along with Johnny Reb and Grayback |
| Turning Movement | A flanking maneuver |
| Torpedo | Exploding mine used on water |
| Tactics | Specific actions by army units in battle. They may include artillery barrage, main attack or flanking maneuver |
| Yankees | Slang for USA soldier. Also called Billy Yank, Federals, Blues |
| Zouaves | Regiments which wore uniforms modelled after the French Legions |
| Cavalry | Mounted soldiers. These units served as advance troops and scouts for the armies |
| Artillery | Big Cannons were manned by these troops. |
| SKEDADDLE | Runaway, as in the Battle of First Manassas |
| "Seeing the elephant" | Being in a real battle |
