
- The Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865.
- The Civil War is considered the bloodiest war in the American history.
- The war was fought between the North and the Southern states.
- The Confederacy was a union of 11 states that supported Slavery.
- They’d gathered 100,000 troops before the war started.
- Abraham Lincoln was the President of American when the war was fought.
- Nearly 2% American lost their lives during the Civil War.
- The Northern US states were more powerful than the Southern states.
- The Northern states won the Civil War
- An average of 600 people were killed in a day during the war.
- A 9-year old boy was the youngest soldier who took part in the war.
- The oldest person who fought in the war for a 80-year old man.
- The Siege of Vicksburg is the longest fought battle in the Civil War.
- Diarrhea and dysentery were the main causes of casualties during the war.
- 66% of the casualties were due to various diseases.
- Approximately, 618, 222 men died during the Civil War.
- John Jefferson Williams was the last soldier killed during the war.
- Divorce rate rose to 150% after the Civil War.
- Black Union soldiers refused their salaries because the white soldiers were getting paid more.
- Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in America.
- 1522 Medal of Honors were presented to the North soldiers during and after the war.
- There were totally 50 major battles fought during the war.
- Gettysburg faced the highest casualty rate with over 51,000 men dead.
- The North and the South also fought naval battles.
- Though photography wasn’t very popular in those times, there were a few photographs taken on the battlefields.
- The first battle to be photographed was the Battle of Antietam.
- It is said that the white soldiers were paid $13 a month whereas the black soldiers were paid only $10.
- The soldiers who died during the war were buried in the battlefield itself.
- Nearly 400,000 soldiers were held captive during the war.
- Several books were written on the happenings of the war.
- The number of orphans increased due to the casualties during the war.
- An average Civil War soldier was 25 years.
- An average Civil War soldier was 5 ft 8”.
- 10,455 military events took place during the war.
- 800 soldiers were burned to death in the Battle of Wilderness.
- After Abraham Lincoln’s death, a $5 Confederate bill was found in his wallet.
- Lincoln was shot two years before his assassination.
- President Lincoln didn’t want his wife to know about this.
- The Civil War was known by 25 other names.
- Nearly 10,000 Civil War soldiers were below 18.
- The government drafted an order that all men should participate in the war.
- But there was a rule that said a man can actually let someone else fight in his place by paying $300.
- Lincoln himself hired a substitute in place of him for $500.
- Lincoln hired John Summerfield to fight in place of him.
- There was a rule at that time that said that one cannot shoot an opponent soldier while he’s pooping.
- The Civil War rules didn’t permit women to fight in the war.
- Several women dressed as men to take part in the war.
- 250-400 women disguised as men to fight in the war.
- Memorial Day is observed in remembrance of the Union soldiers who lost their lives fighting for slavery.
- Nearly 1 million horses were used during the Civil War.
- 850,000 men fled to Canada.
- The fled men were caught and were brought back to fight in the war.
- The number of black prisoners today is more than the number of black men who were held as slaves during the war.
- Albert Woolson was the last living Civil War veteran.
- He died in 1956.
- A slave conquered a Confederate ship and gave it to the North Union.
- Soldiers were supposed to have opposing front teeth to open gun powder pouches.
- Several took out their teeth to avoid being in the war.
- Snowball fights also did happen during the war.
- Confederate soldiers fled to Brazil to not serve the war.
- After the Southerners lost the Civil War, several fled and formed colonies in Mexico and South America.
- Dr. Mary Edwards was the first woman doctor in the US military.
- She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor to date.
- Both the North and South armies stopped fighting to watch a fist fight between two soldiers.
- The generals led the army to the battlefields during the war.
- The generals were more likely to die in the battle.
- Most of the soldiers who fought in the war were volunteers.
- In 1865, Abraham Lincoln was once again elected as the President of the United States.
- Only 1% of the total men who fought in the war belonged to the army.
- Most of the soldiers who died on the battlefield were not returned home for last rites.
- Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth.
- A few days before his death, Lincoln dreamt of being assassinated.
- Southern farmers owned most of the slaves.
- There was no proper uniform in the early days of the war.
- It was hard to differentiate between the North and Southern soldiers.
- Later, the Northern soldiers wore blue and the Confederates wore grey.
- Due to lack of uniforms, people would get shot by their own army.
- Most casualties in the war were due to bullet shots.
- There were only a few hundreds of fatalities because of cannon bombing.
- The Southern people were brilliant in shooting.
- The Northern soldiers mostly worked in factories and were new to firing a gun.
- Poet Walt Whitman serviced as a nurse in the war.
- Most of the Southern people didn’t own slaves.
- There were no anesthetics to treat soldiers who were wounded.
- Nurses used chloroform instead of anesthetics.
- But there are also contradictory statements that say amputations were done using anesthetics.
- Quaker guns were used in the battlefield to confuse the opponents.
- A Quaker gun is a deceptive weapon that doesn’t shoot.
- A Quaker gun is simply a log of wood painted in black to resemble a cannon.
- Though the Northern people were powerful, the Southerners had more chances of winning.
- The Southerners were proficient in hunting, and horse riding.
- The only animals slaves were allowed to raise were chickens.
- The University of Mississippi’s students and faculty participated in the war supporting the Southerners and lost their lives.
- The Gatling gun was invented during the Civil War.
- The public had to pay 15 cents to look at the inmates inside the observation towers.
- The slaves were diagnosed with a disease called drapetomania.
- Drapetomina is a psychiatric condition in which a man has an irrational desire to escape.
- A man named Cooter Brown stayed drunk all the while the war was fought.
- He did this so that he needn’t fight in the war.
- The Kingdom of Hawaii declared itself neutral and didn’t want to participate in the war.