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CIVIL WAR

From April, 1860 to April 14, 1865.

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Weaponry (battlefield)

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Battle of Gettysburg

Important Events The Civil War was a war to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the confederates.

They were thirty-four states in United States and seven Southern slaves states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America known as the “Confederacy “ or “The South”.

At the time Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States of America. He was the most consequential Lincoln served in the Illinois legislature and lost an election for the U.S. Senate to Stephen A. Douglas.

With firm conviction, Lincoln declared South Carolina's secession illegal and pledged to go to war to protect the federal union in 1861. During the four years of the American Civil War, the president steered the North to victory and authored the Emancipation Proclamation, which dealt a severe blow to the institution of slavery in the U.S.

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Weaponry (battlefield) Many Weapons were used in the The Civil War from knives to swords along with a variety of firearms, including rifles, pistols, muskets, and repeating weapons. Also widely used was artillery including cannons. Some of the new weapon technologies used in the Civil War include rifled gun barrels, the Minie ball and repeating rifles.

Cannons played a major role in the Civil War. Some of the cannon used by union and confederate forces include the 12 pound Howitzer, the 10 pound Parrot rifle, and the 3 inch ordnance rifle. The Civil War brought many advancements in gun technology, most notably the widespread use of rifled barrels. Popular rifles used in the Civil War include the Springfield rifle, the Lorenz rifle, the Colt revolving rifle.

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Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North.

Hello Mom, This your son Charley. I just wanted to tell you that I'm doing fine. This “war” is taking a lot of time.

It’s been a year or two, I think, I can’t remember, at least it felt like it. I made only one friend and he died in the first round. He got shot, and suddenly fell down. I didn’t even feel any kind of feeling because it was war. One thing that I hated the most was when someone gets shot in the belly, because if you go to the nurse they’ll just say that they can’t do anything. You’re just there waiting alone until you die, you’ll survive for three days then you were gone. That’s what happened to one of my friends.

Winter arrived, we didn’t fight then, it was too cold then. Every single kind of disease started to spread around the soldiers. We were always doing nothing because we couldn’t even move, we just stayed there next to the fire. I had money enough to buy a cake every week. The cake wasn’t even good, it tasted like wood but I still ate it because I was hungry. I miss you and your delicious meals.

I hope you get this letter and you find a way to help me, take care of yourself and my brother.

Sincerely your son Charley.

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1.hunkered

verb

#65 That night he was hunkered down behind.

21 hunkered

2. Charlie

noun

the main character of the book

#1

the main character of th book

3.syndrome

noun

a group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms.

XV In the Civil War the syndrome was generally not recognized.

4. hullabaloo

noun

a commotion; a fuss

5.withdraw

verb

remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position.

They withdrew and set up camp in Washington … #40

in battles they leave fro camp and then move.

6.sorely

adverb

to a very high degree or level of intensity (especially of an unwelcome or unpleasant state or emotion)

#41 and he was sorely tempted to spend ...

wars are intense

7.sutler

noun

a person who followed #41 The sutler had come and there an army and sold were pies ...

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soldiers needed to have lunch so the sutler gave

provisions to the soldiers

them what they needed

8.inevitability

adverb

unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary:

#43 but he still believed in the inevitability of battle and ...

no escape

9.forage

noun

bulky food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder.

#44 they had been ordered not to forage…

in wars there is bad alimentation

10. seceshes

noun

believes that states should separate

#44 if they left the food the the “dirty seceshes” (for “secessionists”) would just eat it.

back then people wante states to separate

11.secessionists

noun

people that think states should separate.

#44 if they left the food the the “dirty seceshes” (for “secessionists”) would just eat it

back then people wante states to separate

12. lay

noun

the general appearance #45 Charley studied the trees that of an area, including lay two-hundred yards off the direction of streams, hills, and similar features.

13.meadows

noun

a piece of grassland, #46 He was only sixteen, but in especially one used for meadows. hay.

they used to fight in gra land

14.bayonet

noun

a sword like stabbing #47 checked the cap on his rifle blade that may be fixed and fixed his bayonet. to the muzzle of a rifle for use in hand-to-hand fighting.

in the civil war they jus invented the bayonet, gunpowder

15.jab

verb

poke (someone or something) roughly or

thats how they used the bayonets

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#51 Stick and jab and shoot them and murder them...

quickly, especially with something sharp or pointed.

16.plying

verb

work steadily at (one's business or trade); conduct.

#61 The sutlers kept plying their trade and...

people had to earn their food

17.ward

noun

break up

#63 “to ward off the argue...

the argued

18.cartridges

noun

a container holding a spool of photographic film, a quantity of ink, or other item or substance, designed for insertion into a mechanism

#63 changing his cartridges if they became damp...

they used weapons with cartidges

19.trench

noun

a long, narrow ditch

#64 The trench was covered with flat rocks ...

20.picket

noun

a soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty.

#65 Down along the river he was put on picket duty.

people had to do differe jobs

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