FACTS FROM THE CIVIL WAR
More than three million men fought in the Civil War. Two percent of the population, more than 620,000 men died in it. In two days at Shilo, on the banks of the tennessee river, more American men fell than in all the previous American wars combined. 12,401 Union men were killed, missing or wounded during the battle of Antietam - double the casualties of D-Day eighty two years later. There were 23,000 casualties on both sides overall. It was the bloodiest single day of the war. At Cold Harbour, Virginia, 7,000 Americans fell in twenty minuets. Senator John J. Crittendon of Kentucky had two sons who became major generals during the civil war - one for the North and one for the South. The little town of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands seventy two times during the war. The State of Missouri sent thirty-nine regiments to fight in the seige of Vicksburg, Mississippi: seventeen to the Confederacy and twenty - two to the Union. During the Battle of Antietam, Clara Barton tended the wounded so close to the fighting that a bullet went through her sleeve and killed a man she was treating. At the start of the war, the value of all manafactured goods produced in all the Confederate States added up to less than one - fourth of those produced in New York State alone. European powers watched in worried fascination as the Monitor and Merrimac did battle off the Hampton Roads, Viginia, in March 1862. From the moment the two ironclad ships open fire, all other navies became obsolete. In 1862 the United States Congress authorised the first paper money called 'greenbacks'. It also established the first national bank and passed the first national income tax, the Homestead Act and the Land - Grant College Act. Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant, who was not fond of ceremonies or martial music, claimed he could only reconise two tunes, 'one was Yankie Doodle', he said and the other wasn't. Oliver Wendall Holmes J., future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was wounded three times during the civil war: in the chest at Balls Bluff, in the back at Antietam and in the heel at the battle of Chanceilorsville. Confederate Price Henry Stanley fought for the Sixth Arkansas, was captured at the battle of Shilo but survived to go on to Africa to find Dr. Livingston. More than once during the Civil War, newspapers reported a strange phenomenon. From only a few miles away, a battle sometimes made no sound despite the flash of cannon and the fact that more distant observers could here it clearly. These eerie silences were called 'accoustic shadows'. Gettysburg was the greatest battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere. The 14th Tennessee Regiment left Clarksville,Tennessee in 1861 with 960 men. When the battle of Gettysburg began in 1863, only 365 men remainded. By the end of the first day of Gettysburg there were only 60 men left. By the end of the battle, there were only three. At Gettysburg, Confederate General George Pickett led the most famous and doomed infantry assault of the entire war. It was the first time he had ever taken his division into combat. HISTORY U/K LINKS EVENTS PHOTO'S ABOUT US HOMEPAGE REQUIREMENTS ENLIST Previous Charter Page This Maryland Civil War Ring site is owned by Trevor Stevens Want to join the Md. Civil War Web Ring? Next [Skip Prev] [Skip Next] [Random] [Next 5] [List Sites] bull-run@oocities.com. FOR LATEST NEWS (click on flag)
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