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unusual facts about U.S. Civil War



Herodian kingdom

After Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 BCE, Quintus Labienus, a Roman republican general and ambassador to the Parthians, sided with Brutus and Cassius in the Liberators' civil war; after their defeat Labienus joined the Parthians and assisted them in invading Roman territories in 40 BCE.

Indian Mountain State Park

A road connecting Campbell County with Kentucky passed through the area, and may have been used by a detachment of the Confederate Army of East Tennessee to invade Kentucky in 1862 during the U.S. Civil War.

Lawrence Palmer Taylor

The Taylors live in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where they avidly pursue a family interest in collecting antique maps and books and ephemera from the U.S. Civil War and the Boer War in South Africa.

Legio X Equestris

During the civil war that followed Caesar's assassination, the Legio X was reconstituted by Lepidus (winter 44/43), and fought for the triumvirs until the final Battle of Philippi.

Letterman Digital Arts Center

The arts center takes its name from its location on the former site of the army's Letterman Army Hospital, which was named for Dr. Jonathan Letterman, medical director for the Army of the Potomac in the U.S. Civil War.

Seth Ledyard Phelps

He served with distinction in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War and afterward was appointed president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and then as U.S. Minister to Peru.

Tsuboi Kōzō

That same year he received training on board the flagship USS Colorado of the American Asiatic Squadron and was sponsored by Admiral John Rodgers to attend Columbia University from April 1872 until July 1874.

United States Note

The United States Congress had enacted the Legal Tender Acts during the U.S. Civil War when southern Democrats were absent from the Congress, and thus their Jacksonian hard money views were under represented.


see also

Battle of Independence

Second Battle of Independence, a battle of the U.S. Civil War fought in the same town on 21-22 October 1864 (also a Confederate victory).

Canadian Civil War

Canada in the American Civil War, the events in the colonies of British North America during the U.S. civil war (1861–65).

Charles Denby

Charles Harvey Denby (1830–1904), U.S. Civil War officer, diplomat in China

Cherry Mansion

Although privately owned, it remains a "must see" sight for U.S. Civil War buffs who travel to the Shiloh, Tennessee area.

Chivington

John Chivington, a Colonel at the time of the U.S. Civil War who gained infamy for his attack on a peaceful settlement of Native Americans on the plains of Colorado, an attack which came to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre

James I. Robertson, Jr.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Robertson to serve as the executive director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, a federal committee that was foundering under the pressures of regional differences and the emerging civil rights movement, unable to organize a dignified commemoration of the war era.

John Oliver

John Morrison Oliver (1828–1872), Union Brigadier General in the U.S. Civil War

Manuel Chaves

Manuel Antonio Chaves (1818–1889), figure in U.S.-Navajo and U.S. Civil War history

Old Town, Tennessee

the former settlement of Hardinville, Tennessee, which by the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War had been renamed Old Town

Outerbridge

Thomas Leslie Outerbridge (died 1927), a Bermudian participant in the U.S. Civil War

Sempronius

Sempronius H. Boyd, U.S. Congressman from Missouri and U.S. Civil War Colonel.