History Quiz 3

An attack against the flanks of any enemy's army, in hopes of eventually envirvling it

The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863

The sides of an army's line in battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides

The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of farmers in a battle area.

Paper money used during the Civil War in the North

A quarter inch or half inch thick hard cracker eaten by Civil war soldiers.

Cloth bag used by soldiers to carry rations and food

Foot soldiers marching and fighting together. The vast majority of Civil War soldiers were infantry

A ship covered with iron plates and used in the Civil War. famous Merrimac vs. Monitor first ever naval battle between ironclads in 1862. The revolutionized naval warfare

The big, concentrated attack against the enemy's weak or critical point