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11 Cards in this Set
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contraband
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goods illegally traded during wartime; slaves were sometimes called this during war
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copperhead
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a Northern democrat who agreed with Southern secession and clamoured for peace during the war
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deploy
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to spread out army, to create a battle line
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desertion
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to leave ones military post or to run away from battle often punishable by death
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Dixie
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slang for a confederate solider, also a popular song
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draft or conscription
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selecting citizens for mandatory military service
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drills
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the process of instructing recruits on how to march and practice the military arts as a unit
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dysentery
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an often fatal disease usually caused by unclean conditions of camps and battle sites
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envelopment
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to attack against the flanks of an army in hope to eventually surround them
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emancipation
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the formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened inn January 1863
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flanks
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sides of an army's line in battle. this movement is attacking the sides
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