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100 unusual facts about American Civil War


1864 in sports

The Race is resumed after three years off although the American Civil War will continue to next April.

2001 Maniacs

Six prep college students and a biker couple travel south towards Daytona Beach for Spring Break, but a detour leads them into the seemingly idyllic Georgia town of Pleasant Valley, which is holding its annual "Guts and Glory Jubilee" in honor of the American Civil War.

8th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry

The 8th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, also known as the "Rochester Regiment," fought during the American Civil War.

Abertay Historical Society

Since 1953 the Society has published books on local history, the first of which was Dundee and the American Civil War by David Carrie.

Albert Lybrock

He was the most important architect in Richmond during the booming decade prior to the American Civil War.

Behavior Cemetery

The African American cemetery is believed to date to before the American Civil War although the earliest marker is dated to the late 19th century.

BlazeSports America

It has long been the symbol of Atlanta’s rebirth after its devastation in the American Civil War.

Brian Grant

He is nicknamed "The General" after growing up in the same town of Georgetown, Ohio as Civil War Union general and President Ulysses S. Grant.

Bridgeport Bluefish

The game of baseball was first played in Bridgeport, Connecticut soon after the Civil War ended.

Bruce Chadwick

His first American Civil War book, Brother Again Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey (Citadel Press, 1997), was followed by the dual biography of the Civil War’s leaders, Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 1861 1865 (Citadel, 1999), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

Camp Drum

A Civil War era military encampment active from 1862–1873 near Los Angeles; see Drum Barracks.

Cariboo Gold Rush

One reason the Cariboo rush attracted fewer Americans than the original Fraser rush may have been the American Civil War, with many who had been around after the Fraser Gold Rush going home to take sides, or to the Fort Colville Gold Rush which was largely manned by men who had been on the Fraser or to other BC rushes such as those at Rock Creek and Big Bend.

Charles Francis Pietsch

On June 14, 1866, he married Florence Augusta Wells (whose parents were originally from Connecticut, but settled in Maryland prior to the outbreak of the Civil War).

Cigarette taxes in the United States

This occurred as a result of the Union’s increasing debt during the American Civil War and the Federal government’s need for additional revenue.

Click Go the Shears

The tune is an adaptation of the American Civil War song "Ring the Bell, Watchman" by Henry Clay Work and the first verse follows closely, in parody, Work's lyrics as well.

Continental Freemasonry

The first instance of derecognition occurred in the United States shortly after the American Civil War.

Democracy: An American Novel

Dates are never mentioned either, but internal evidence (at one point a 25-year-old woman says that she was "almost an infant" during the Civil War) suggests it is set in the late 1870s.

Dick Wessel

From 1959 to 1961, Wessel co-starred as Carney Kohler in all forty-two episodes of Darren McGavin's NBC western television series, Riverboat, set along the Mississippi River prior to the American Civil War.

Discrediting tactic

Cleveland's defeat of his opponent, James Blaine may have been helped by another discrediting tactic used against him which seriously backfired, namely the assertion that Cleveland's party was that of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" (the latter two referring to Roman Catholicism and the American Civil War).

District of Columbia City Hall

The federal government rented additional space in 1863 during the American Civil War and later purchased the building to house the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Dixie Cornell Gebhardt

She was the daughter of a pioneer Knoxville physician who served as an army surgeon in the American Civil War with the Iowa Infantry.

Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Their other son, Robert, fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and then for France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.

Duncan Stephen Walker

Duncan Stephen Walker (November 11, 1841 – June 3, 1912) was an American Union brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War.

Early County, Georgia

One of the last wooden flagpoles from the American Civil War era is located at the historic courthouse in downtown Blakely.

Eduardo Newbery

His father Ralph Lamartine Newbery, emigrated from Long Island, New York, and settled in Argentina after the American Civil War (in which, supposedly, he took part at the Battle of Gettysburg).

Eliphalet Oram Lyte

Dr. Lyte entered the Millersville State Normal School in 1866 after serving in the Civil War and teaching for two years.

Erema

Having completed her self-imposed mission, she sets out on her way back to California and the sawmill; reaches the other side of the Atlantic in time to help in nursing the sick and wounded in the civil war; and among them finds her old friends, Sampson Gundry and his grandson, arrayed on opposite sides in the war.

F. F. Bosworth

His father was a Civil War veteran (part of an Illinois company), who would have moved to Utica Nebraska some time after the Civil War was over, but before F. F. Bosworth was born.

Folck's Mill

It is historically significant for its association with the August 1, 1864, Civil War "Battle of Folck's Mill." In that battle, Union troops commanded by General Benjamin F. Kelley engaged General John McCausland’s Confederate forces as they advanced along the Baltimore Pike towards Cumberland after having burned the town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, two days previously.

Forgery as covert operation

The United States Secret Service was created by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in 1865 to combat the high counterfeit rate of currency.

Fort Gaines

Fort Gaines, Maryland, an American Civil War-era fort that defended the northeastern approaches to Washington, D.C.

Fort Queenscliff

These hostile powers were, at various times, identified as the French, the Russians and, at one stage during the American Civil War, the United States.

Francis Hoffmann

After the Civil War, Hoffmann worked for the Illinois Central Railroad as a land commissioner and established the International Bank (his first bank had failed during the war).

Francis Mahler

Colonel Francis (Franz) Mahler (1826-1863) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Francis Trevelyan Miller

Notable works from him including several books about the American Civil War, such as The Photographic History of the Civil War, in Ten Volumes (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1912).

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

In the same year he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Mississippi, of which institution he was chancellor from 1856 until the outbreak of the Civil War, when, his sympathies being with the North, he resigned and went to Washington.

Friedrich Sorge

Sorge became an active socialist in 1865, after the end of the American Civil War, and soon became the leading proponent of Karl Marx's views in the United States.

General Sutter

It is based on the life of John August Sutter, a Swiss-born figure who participated in the American gold rush in the years after the American Civil War.

George Farquhar

Bertolt Brecht set his adaptation of The Recruiting Officer, called Pauken und Trompeten, in America during the Civil War.

George Julian Harney

Harney's support for the North in the American Civil War upset Joseph Cowen and in November 1862 Harney was forced to resign.

George Washington Emery Dorsey

During the American Civil War, he recruited a volunteer company and entered the Union Army in August 1861 as a first lieutenant in the 6th Regiment West Virginia Infantry.

Greenfield Quarles

Quarles served in the Confederate States Army during the civil war as a Private.

Heartland International Tattoo

2007 marked the Second Annual Heartland International Tattoo by paying tribute to the Military and Music of the Civil War.

Henry Clay Whitney

On 6 August 1861, at the start of the American Civil War, Whitney was appointed Assistant U.S. Paymaster, holding this office until 13 March 1865.

Henry P. Haney

Henry P. Haney (November 25, 1846 - November 19, 1923) was an American Last survivor of The Great Locomotive Chase during the American Civil War.

Heritage Days

The organization, whose purpose is to "preserve, protect, promote, and celebrate heritage of Rogersville, Tennessee," envisioned an annual event to commemorate the historic town and to emulate the nineteenth century harvest festivals that Rogersville had seen after the American Civil War.

Hesperidina

He was involved in the dry goods business in New Orleans before the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Hiram Harrison Lowry

In 1862-63 Lowry served during the American Civil War in the ninety-seventh regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

History of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

During the American Civil War, on August 18, 1864, the Confederate ship CSS Tallahassee under the command of John Taylor Wood sailed into Halifax harbour for supplies, coal and to make repairs to her mainmast.

History of wind band

Beginning shortly before, and extending into the American Civil War, the widely popular bands were performing across the nation.

Hugh Logan

Hugh Logan (November 22, 1834 – 1903) was a Captain of the Afterguard in the Union Navy and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.

It'll Shine When It Shines

For the session, they cut their tracks in the pre-Civil War house that served as their rehearsal space, with Johns and Anderle working from a mobile recording truck parked outside.

Jacques Telesphore Roman

His valiant efforts to preserve the position and holdings of his family failed against the overwhelming social and political turmoil resulting from the Civil War and Reconstruction, joined the ever-growing tide of once powerful and proud Creoles caught in a downhill slide toward oblivion.

James Johnston Thornton

During the American Civil War, however, the Thornton family was pro-Union, which created local hostility.

Jay A. DeLoach

The USS Alligator was the first submarine built during the Civil War by the Union Navy.

Johann Ludwig Karl Heinrich von Struve

However, his wife, Minna, did not and just prior to the American Civil War, he sent his family back to Europe.

John B. Mason

He later appeared in every original Gilbert and Sullivan opera production in America and created the leading roles in the plays Hands Across the Sea, The English Rose and as Kerchival West in Bronson Howard's Civil War play, Shenandoah.

John George Butler

He was one of the first regimental and hospital chaplains appointed by President Abraham Lincoln at the outbreak of the American Civil War.

John Pickler

He attended public schools in Davis and enlisted in the Iowa 3rd Cavalry during the American Civil War.

Joseph J. Thorndike

They enlarged it, turned it into a hardcover, profusely illustrated bimonthly with no advertisements, and hired popular American Civil War historian Bruce Catton as editor and writer.

Kautz Family YMCA Archives

Subjects covered include the evolution of the YMCA from its Protestant evangelical origins, the YMCA's contributions to Civil War relief, the invention of basketball and volleyball, rural reconstruction in India and Korea, teaching English as a second language, and more.

Lewis B. Parsons, Jr.

(Perry, New York, April 5, 1818 - Flora, Illinois, March 16, 1907) was one of the last officers who was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers during the American Civil War.

Lynne Carver

The Sampson family were prominent Kentuckians for several generations, where her grandfather, William Sampson, had served as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court during the American Civil War.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Some of King's words reflected in these quotations are based on other sources, including the Bible, and in one case—"the arc of the moral universe" quote—upon the words of Theodore Parker, an abolitionist and Unitarian minister, who died shortly before the beginning of the Civil War.

Martin Van Buren Bates

Martin Van Buren Bates (November 9, 1837 – January 7, 1919), known as the "Kentucky Giant" among other nicknames, was a Civil War-era American famed for his incredibly large size.

Mathilde Franziska Anneke

The Annekes were vocal opponents of slavery during the American Civil War, and Fritz served in the Union army, as colonel and commanding officer of the 34th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Melchor Ocampo

Although presidents Juárez and Buchanan were both in favour of the arrangement, it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate on account of the impending Civil War in the United States.

Michael Heilprin

In the civil-war era, prominent Jewish religious leaders in the United States engaged in public debates about slavery.

Missouri Historical Society

They document the slaves' petitions for freedom under state law before the American Civil War.

Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett

He was subsequently reelected to both the 35th and 36th Congresses, serving from December 1, 1856, to March 3, 1861, only leaving at the outbreak of the Civil War.

Officer of the day

In the American Civil War, a General officer of the day was a general officer assigned the duties of responding to reports by the picket line, such as a flag of truce.

Order of the Secret Monitor

It was brought to the UK by Dr I Zacharie, when he returned from America following the American Civil War in 1875.

Oriel Chambers

John Wellborn Root studied in in Liverpool as a teenaged boy, being sent there by his father to be safe from the American Civil War following the Atlanta Campaign (1864).

Patrick Donahoe

During the American Civil War he actively interested himself in the organization of the Irish regiments that volunteered from New England.

Peabody Education Fund

Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.

Peter Charles Remondino

In the course of a medical career spanning 55 years, he served with the Union forces during the American Civil War as surgeon.

Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres

With the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861, Chartres and his brother, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, traveled to the United States to support the Union cause.

Robert Bruce Smith, IV

The scandal became a worldwide cause célèbre in the decades immediately preceding the Civil War.

Robert Ekelund

Economic topics notably discussed by Ekelund include the history of economic thought, the economics of regulation, the economics of religion, public choice theory, mercantilism, and the economics of the American Civil War blockades.

Robert Lee Moore

Although Moore's father was reared in New England and was of New England ancestry, he fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy.

Robert V. Richardson

Robert Vinkler Richardson (November 4, 1820 – January 6, 1870) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Robert W. Everett

He entered the Confederate States Army as a sergeant in Captain Gartrell's company, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's escort squadron, and served until the close of the Civil War.

Rożnowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Rożnowo is best known as the birthplace of Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski, a military leader and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Rufus M. Rose

Before the start of the American Civil War, Rose had studied medicine, received a diploma and moved to Hawkinsville, Georgia.

Sam McDaniel

His father Henry McDaniel fought in the Civil War with the 122nd USCT and his mother, Susan Holbert, was a singer of religious music.

Samuel C. Upham

At the start of the Civil War Upham began marketing patriotic items to support the Union, and novelty items mocking the Confederacy, such as cards depicting the head of Jefferson Davis on the body of a jackass.

Sanford A. Moeller

Moeller based his lessons and instruction around a playing style used by drummers who had served in the American Civil War.

Serpon Sugar Mill

After the American Civil War in 1865, American immigrants from the southern United States invested heavily in sugar plantations and small sugar mills throughout southern Belize.

St. Joseph by the Sea High School

A large tract that originally included a broad beach area on Raritan Bay in what was then a very rural section of Staten Island, it sat near a number of Catholic facilities, including Camp St. Edward (a summer camp for African American children served by the Handmaids of Mary) and the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mt. Loretto (a vast orphanage and farm for boys and girls started by Fr. John C. Drumgoole in post-Civil War New York).

Stephen W. Sears

Stephen Ward Sears (born July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

Terri Garber

The six-part miniseries, with a running time of 90 minutes each episode, dealt with the society in both northern and southern states before the American Civil War and was aired by ABC TV.

Texas State Highway 4

This section passes a few historical landmarks, including the site of the Battle of Palmito Ranch, site of the final battle of the American Civil War.

The Doctor Who Role Playing Game

FASA also published two solo play gamebooks: Doctor Who and the Vortex Crystal (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan and the Daleks, set on the planet Gathwyr; and Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gambit (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Sixth Doctor, Peri and Harry Sullivan, set during the American Civil War, ISBN 0-931787-68-8

Theodore D. Wilson

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he volunteered for U.S. Army service and served as a non–commissioned officer in the 13th New York Regiment.

Thom Hatch

Thom Hatch is an award-winning, popular American author and novelist who specializes in the history of the American West, the American Civil War, and the Plains Indian Wars.

Thomas J. Speer

He was appointed collector of Confederate taxes for Pike County in June 1863, serving until the end of the American Civil War.

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

On the whole his assessment was that plantation slavery was not very profitable, had about reached its limits in 1860, and would probably have faded away without the American Civil War, which he considered needless conflict.

Vestby

Many Norwegian emigrants went to America during the 1840s and later settled in the area of the present city of Westby, Wisconsin (named after general store owner and American Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby); a city which still has a mostly Norwegian American population.

VMI Keydets football

Taylor was the son of Walter H. Taylor, a Civil War lieutenant colonel and aide to Robert E. Lee.

White House china

As a result, the Lincoln administration (1861–1865) was socially active amid the Civil War.


27th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment recruited in New Haven, Connecticut, for service in the American Civil War.

Anson Stager

Anson Stager (April 20, 1825 - March 26, 1885) was the co-founder of Western Union, the first president of Western Electric Manufacturing Company and Union Army general, where he was head of the Military Telegraph Department during the Civil War.

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Avery Craven

Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.

Battle of Monroe's Crossroads

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) was a battle during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Bragg Military Reservation.

Bloomer Girl

The American Civil War is looming, and abolitionist Evelina refuses to marry suitor Jeff Calhoun until he frees his slave, Pompey.

Casey Stengel

Mocking his well-publicized advanced age, when he was hired he said, "It's a great honor to be joining the Knickerbockers", a New York baseball team that had seen its last game around the time of the Civil War.

Charles Follen Adams

During the American Civil War, at age 22, Adams enlisted in the 13th Massachusetts Infantry.

Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth Monument and Grave

The monument to Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first casualty of the American Civil War, was built in 1874 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Dan McGugin

Referring to the Michigan players, McGugin said, "You are going against Yankees, some of whose grandfathers killed your grandfathers in the Civil War."

Daniel Donovan

In the navy he saw much of the world, particularly the Americas (he was, for example, in the city of New Orleans when the American Civil War came to an end, and he was in Mexico during the revolution of 1867 when the Emperor Maximillian was dethroned and executed).

Ebenezer Dumont

Dumont was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress and was reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1863–March 3, 1867).

Farragut, Tennessee

The town is named in honor of American Civil War Admiral David Farragut, who was born just east of Farragut at Campbell's Station in 1801.

Frank M. Faircloth

Frank M. Faircloth (1820—January 6, 1900) was an American naval officer who served in the Union Navy during the Civil War.

Gaelic games county colours

As Cork is nicknamed the "Rebel County", its fans have also flown the Rebel Flag of the American Civil War.

Harrison G. O. Blake

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but instead, with the Civil War raging, entered the United States Army in 1864.

Harry Castlemon

He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron.

Henry Clark Corbin

He was born in Monroe Township, Ohio, and was teaching school and studying law when the American Civil War broke out.

Humphreys Peak

Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

James Buchanan Eads

In 1861, after the outbreak of the American Civil War, Eads was called to Washington at the prompting of his friend, Attorney General Edward Bates, to consult on the defense of the Mississippi River.

John H. Brinton

He served in the capacity of a brigadier surgeon in the American Civil War, later as a member of General Ulysses S. Grant's staff.

Katherine Prescott Wormeley

During the American Civil War, she, with noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and the Rev. Henry Bellows, played a role in the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian agency set up to coordinate the volunteer efforts of women and men who wanted to contribute to the war effort.

Kenner Garrard

As a loyal Unionist, he was imprisoned by Confederate authorities following the surrender of U.S. troops by Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs.

Kevin Hagen

In the story line, Cort Evers, who is much younger than he appears, seeks revenge against his brother Mitch (Harry Carey, Jr.), whom he mistakenly blames for betraying six Union Army prisoners from their hometown during the American Civil War.

Leffert L. Buck

Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and

Mary Meigs

Meigs was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Edward Browning Meigs and Margaret Wister Meigs, and grew up in Washington, D.C. Her great-great-grandfather was the famous obstetrician Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs, and her great-granduncle was Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States Army during the American Civil War.

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy is a coming of age film, complete with suspense, drama, comedic relief and Civil War references.

Mud clerk

A mud clerk was a helper or all-around worker aboard a steamboat during the period before and after the American Civil War, particularly aboard steamboats on the Mississippi River.

Puerto Rico v. Branstad

The U.S. Supreme Court previously held in Kentucky v. Dennison (1861)—issued shortly before the Civil War—that the federal courts may not, through the issue of writs of mandamus, compel state governors to surrender fugitives.

Reuben D. Mussey, Jr.

(often called RD Mussey) (May 30, 1833–May 29, 1892) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and a distinguished lawyer.

Richardsville, Virginia

It was the site of many of Virginia's gold mines in the early 19th century and the site of many troop movements and skirmishes during the Civil War.

Ricky Ian Gordon

In 2011 he wrote the music for Rappahannock County, a staged revue of twenty one songs about the Civil War, commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival.

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr.

Sam enlisted in Col. Xavier Debray's regiment on September 18, 1861, and served until the end of the American Civil War on the coast of Texas and in Louisiana.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Thomas Preston Carpenter

At the breaking out of the American Civil War, he joined the Union League of Philadelphia, and gave his entire sympathies to the Union cause.

Washington, Kansas

Washington was established in spring 1860 and until the end of the American Civil War it was protected by two stockaded buildings, the Washington Company House and Woolbert's Stockade Hotel.

Washington, Louisiana

During the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Connecticut, part of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks's forces, occupied Washington, then larger than the parish seat of Opelousas.

William Axton Stokes

Stokes later served as a major in the U.S. Infantry during the American Civil War, including a period in 1861 commanding at the 18th U.S. Infantry Headquarters, Camp Thomas, Franklin County, Ohio.

William Pope McArthur

Among the passengers was future American Civil War General Joseph E. Johnston who accompanied the vessel as a civilian topographical engineer.