The Civil War

state on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

• border state

• entrench

• total war

to formally join a military force

• resistance

• enlist

• tributary

stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river

• total war

• casualty

• tributary

a warship equipped with iron plating for protection

• ironclad

• tributary

• flank

a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle

• flank

• casualty

• draft

formal announcement from President Lincoln, dated January 1, 1863. It freed enslaved people in parts of the South that were in rebellion.

• habeas corpus

• resistance

• Emancipation Proclamation

a legal order that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court

• habeas corpus

• border state

• bounty

a system of selecting people for required military service

• tributary

• draft

• ironclad

a reward or payment

• ironclad

• entrench

• bounty

to place within a trench or ditch, for defense

• entrench

• casualty

• enlist