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Civil War Vocab

8 cards·by Iyari
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battery
unit of 4-6 cannons or fortified position on which they were placed
blockside
closing off using naval forces of a city or other area ton traffic and communication
cartridge box
leather box in which soldiers carried round bullets
contraband
goods, illegally traded durig wartime
chloroform
liquid drug used to anesthetize wounded soldiers
copperband
northern democratic
desertion
to leave one's military post or to run away from battle
dysentery
a fatal disease of human intetines