states rights | | 1st Battle of Civil War |
offensive | | muzzle-loading cannon used to fire projectiles at high angles |
draft | | a war within a nation between opposing political regions. |
soldier | | person who offers himself for service without being forced to do so |
headquarters | | a 19th century warship having sides armored with metal plates |
volunteer | | Robert E. Lee's "perfect battle" |
slavery | | a call to military service |
rebel | | speech by Lincoln about the many casualties |
calvary | | an encounter of two armies |
civil rights | | the ownership of one or more persons by another or others |
weapon | | strong or fortified place for protection against the enemy. |
secede | | military unit composed of three or four brigades led by a major general |
battery | | place where a battle is fought; area of conflict |
Confederacy | | 2nd battle of Bull Run; North called it this. |
Gettysburg | | the union of the Southern states that had seceded |
Antietam | | the rights guaranteed by a nation's government to all its citizens. |
Chancellorsville | | the 1st major battle of the war |
emancipation | | large, lengthy bullet made of soft lead that was fired from Civil War |
Second Manassas | | number of similar items grouped as a unit |
cannon | | foot soldiers; basic unit of a Civil War army |
battlefield | | to move or quit from one place |
casualty | | an instrument used for fighting |
minie ball | | President of the U.S. during the war |
Robert E. Lee | | Union General |
ironclad | | another name for Confederate |
Gettysburg Address | | a large mounted gun for firing heavy shells. |
civil war | | the victim of a severe accident, esp. one that results in death. |
fort | | general of the Confederacy |
Union | | blodiest battle of the war |
battle | | making the attack |
Shiloh | | the act of freeing from some constraint or confinement. |
infantry | | the place or center of command, esp. of a military unit |
mortar | | a handgun with a revolving set of cylindrical chambers for bullets. |
musket | | all rights and powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution nor denied by it to the states. |
Bull Run | | also known as battle of Pittsburg Landing |
revolver | | a heavy, large-calibre gun with a long barrel, carried on the shoulder and loaded through the muzzle |
Lincoln | | a person who serves in the army, esp. an enlisted person as opposed to an officer. |
Ulysses S. Grant | | those states remaining loyal to the United States of America |
Appomattox | | army component mounted on horseback used mostly for scouting, raids and protecting the flanks of the army |
division | | last battle of the Civil War; Lee surrenders |