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Civil War Vocab.

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show withdraw from the Union  
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show Northerner who opposed fighting to keep the South in the Union  
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emancipate   show
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border states   show
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conscription   show
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show person who takes advantage of an emergency to make money  
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civilians   show
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bounties   show
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tax-in-kind   show
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show right to have charges filed or a trial before being jailed.  
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show a minor fight in war incidential to a larger movement  
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daguerreotype   show
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show a ship or a person who runs through a blockade  
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show A: military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender. B: a persistent or serious attack (as of illness).  
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martial law   show
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privateers   show
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total war   show
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Johnny Reb   show
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Pook Turtles   show
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show to bring together military recruits  
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Billy Yank   show
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antiseptic   show
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show anything that relives pain  
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flank   show
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minie ball   show
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cavalry   show
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show soldiers on foot that march to place to place  
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artillery   show
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a score   show
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show A military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action. the defintion may depend on the reporter's resorce of information.  
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