2 (U.S. history) the war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the North and the South, sparked off by Lincoln's election as president but with deep-rooted political and economic causes, exacerbated by the slavery issue.
A barrage is a term used to describe extensive artillery fire against enemy positions. Barrages were classified as light, moderate or heavy. A light barrage amounted to six or seven shells every ten minutes. A moderate barrage was thirty shells a minute and a heavy one, fifty to sixty shells a minute.
[singular] : a great amount of something that comes quickly and continuously â + of. 1  He unleashed a barrage of insults. 2  The reporters overwhelmed her with a barrage of questions. 3  a barrage [=flood] of phone calls.