The document defines various words related to the American Civil War including battlefield, cannons, drummer boy, fever, homesick, muskets, stretchers, and trenches. It describes terms for locations and events of war such as where fighting occurred, large guns that fired projectiles, boys who played drums to signal soldiers, illness from high body temperature, longing for home, early rifles, ways to transport injured people, and defensive ditches. The vocabulary relates to experiences of soldiers and conditions they endured during the Civil War.