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unusual facts about US Civil War



Drawing room

During the US Civil War, in the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, the drawing room was just off the parlor where C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis greeted his guests.

James Rector

He was the grandson of Arkansas Civil War governor Henry Massey Rector and Mississippi Reconstruction governor James Alcorn.

Jamestown Exposition

Possibly the most popular attraction was a re-creation of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, which had taken place within sight of Sewell's Point 40 years earlier during the Civil War.

William Julius Champion, Jr.

William Julius Champion Jr. was born on June 15, 1880 in Trinidad, Colorado to US Civil War veteran William Julius Champion Sr. and Elvira Hellen Gammons, a descendant of Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers.


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Benjamin Franklin Tefft

As the American Consul in Stockholm, Sweden during the US Civil War, he encouraged and facilitated Swedish emigration to the United States, particularly his native state of Maine.

Canton, Connecticut

William E. Simonds (1842–1903), US Civil War veteran, Medal of Honor recipient and congressman for Connecticut born in Collinsville

Charles Comfort Tiffany

Tiffany was a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States – an organization for officers who served in the Union armed forces during the US Civil War.

George Cram

George Henry Cram (1838–1872), US Civil War Union Army brevet general

Triskaidekaphobia

In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers led by US Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler came together to put an end to this and other superstitions.