Civil War Troops
Ten little known facts about the Civil War
1. When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which was not done by the release of all slaves, was only the liberation of slaves in the rebel states. It is interesting that he chose to free the slaves in states that had less power to do so. He, however, serve a political purpose by adding a moral component to the cause of the Union and also allowed blacks join the Union Army and Navy. At the end of the war at least 200,000 blacks fought for the Union.
2. Union General Major General Lovell H. Rousseau, Once rounded notable during the Union occupation of Huntsville, Alabama, and every day since one of them in European trains in and out of town to prevent Confederate firing indiscriminately on the trains.
3. At the end of the war, federal funds had paid for an estimated 840,000 horses and mules over 430,000. Confederate officers and the mounted cavalry were required to provide their own horses, although to be paid at a daily rate of forty cents. If the horse was killed, was necessary to find a new or could be transferred to the infantry service.
4. During the Civil War, more men died of the disease that died from actual combat. Exact figures are difficult to find, especially the Confederates many documents were lost or destroyed. The estimated however, the total number of deaths in the civil war more than 600,000 for the two parts together. Of these, more than 200,000 were for combat and the rest of the disease and other causes.
5. This was not a conclusion that Robert E. losses Lee ordered the Confederate States Army. In many ways, sympathetic with the North. In his view, slavery wrong and supported maintaining the Union, but Lincoln refused to provide the main forces of the Union. Ultimately, his loyalty to his state of Virginia was stronger than his loyalty to the Union.
6. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln asked Grant and his wife to join him Mrs. Lincoln and Washington. Ms. Grant was not particularly warm feelings to Mrs. Lincoln, so they refused. If they had gone to Washington, may have been there that night, when Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater.
7. The son of President Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln has been saved from falling under a train by the famous actor Edwin Booth. A few months later, the brother Edwin Booth, John Wilks Booth would assassinate President Lincoln.
8. The first fatality was in the Civil War an accident. After two days of bombing by the Confederates at Fort Sumter causing serious damage and numerous fires had not yet dead. After running food shortages, Union Major Robert Anderson agreed to surrender the fortress, one of the stipulations that they be allowed to salute the flag, as they have been removed. To the next day, over 100 hi weapons fire, a burning piece cartridge landed in a heap of new cartridges, causing an explosion that killed Iberia. Daniel Hough and mortally wounded another.
9. Ulysses S. Grant's wife Julia Grant was taken prisoner by the Confederates. Julia and her younger son, Jesse often traveled with Ulises slept in their fields so they can have "good home-cooked meal. In December 1862, Julia was captured by Confederate troops in command of Brigadier General of the Confederation. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. This seems to be the only wife of a Union general who was a prisoner. When his identity was discovered, Forrest was released immediately.
10. The first submarine to sink the boat HL Hunley was the enemy. On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine with a crew of eight people, including Confederation Lt. George Dixon, left the Port of Charleston to sink the USS Housatonic Union. The submarine was propelled by human hand crank attached to the propeller shaft. They managed to set an explosive on the USS Housatonic and explosives, sending the ship in the background, however, before returning to port, the HL Hunley sank to substance and kill its entire crew.
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