Ch.21 "Girding for War: The North and South"
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| Intelligence | In military affairs or diplomacy, specific in formation about an adversary's forces, deployments, production, and so on. | "He consistently but erroneously believed that the enemy outnumbered him, partly because...his intelligence reports were unreliable." (p.453)
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| Reconnaissance | Operations designed specifically to observe and ferret out pertinent information about an adversary. | "...'Jeb' Stuart's cavalry rode completely around his army on reconnaissance."(p.462)
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| Proclamation | An official announcement or publicly declared order. | "Thus, the Emancipation Proclamation was stronger on proclamation than emancipation."(p.459)
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| Flank | The side of an army, where it is vulnerable to attack. | "Lee...sent 'Stonewall' Jackson to attack the Union flank."(p.462)
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| Court-martial | A military court or a trial held in such a court under military law. | "Resigning from the army to avoid a court-martial for drunkenness, he failed at various business ventures..."(p.464)
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| Garrison | A military fortress, or the troops stationed at such a fortress, usually designed for defense or occupation of a terriotry. | "Vicksburg at length surrendered...,with the garrison reduced to eating mules and rats."(p.465)
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| Morale | The condition of courage, confidence. and willingness to endure hardship. | "One of his major purposes was...to weaken the morale of the men at the front by waging war on their homes."(p.467)
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| Pillaging | Plundering, looting, destroying property by violence. | "...his army...engaged in an orgy of pillaging."(p.467)
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| Tribunal | An agency or institution (sometimes but not necessarily a court) constituted to render judgments and assign punishment. | "But he was convicted by a military tribunal in 1863 for treasonable utterances..."(p.469)
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| Running Mate | In American politics, the candidate fore the lesser of two offices when they are decided together-for example, the U.S. vice presidency. | "Lincoln's running mate was ex-tailor Andrew Johnson..."(p.469)
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