| 1. When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation | | | | didn't have particularly warm feelings towards Mrs. |
| Proclamation he wasn't actually freeing ALL the | | | | Lincoln so they declined the offer. Had they gone to |
| slaves, he was only freeing the slaves in the | | | | Washington, they likely would have been there that |
| rebellious states. It's interesting that he chose to free | | | | night when Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's |
| the slaves in those states that he had the least | | | | Theatre. |
| power to do so. It did however serve a political | | | | 7. President Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln was |
| purpose by adding a moral component to the Union | | | | once saved from falling under a train by famous |
| cause and also allowed blacks to join the Union Army | | | | actor Edwin Booth. A few months later, Edwin |
| and Navy. By the end of the war as many as | | | | Booth's brother John Wilks Booth would assassinate |
| 200,000 blacks had fought for the Union. | | | | President Lincoln. |
| 2. Union General Major General Lovell H. Rousseau | | | | 8. The first fatality in the Civil War was an accident. |
| once rounded up leading citizens during the Union | | | | After two days of shelling by the Confederates on |
| occupation of Huntsville Alabama and each day placed | | | | Fort Sumter causing heavy damage and many fires, |
| one of them on the Union trains traveling in and out | | | | there were still no fatalities. After running short on |
| of the city to discourage Confederates from | | | | supplies, Union Maj. Robert Anderson agreed to |
| indiscriminately firing into the trains. | | | | surrender the fort, one of the stipulations being that |
| 3. By the end of the war, Federal funds had paid for | | | | they be allowed to salute the flag as they took it |
| an estimated 840,000 horses and more than 430,000 | | | | down. The next day, during the 100 gun salute, a |
| mules. Confederates officers and mounted troopers | | | | smoldering piece of cartridge landed on a pile of new |
| were required to provide their own horses although | | | | cartridges causing an explosion that killed Pvt. Daniel |
| they were reimbursed at a daily rate of forty cents. | | | | Hough and fatally injured another. |
| If the horse was killed, he was required to find a | | | | 9. Ulysses S. Grant's wife Julia Grant was once taken |
| new one or he might be transferred to infantry | | | | prisoner by the Confederates. Julia and their |
| service. | | | | youngest son Jesse often traveled with Ulysses and |
| 4. During the American Civil War, more men died | | | | stayed in his camps so he could have "good |
| from disease than died from actual combat. Exact | | | | home-cooked food". In December of 1862, Julia was |
| numbers are hard to come by especially on the | | | | captured by Confederate troops under the command |
| Confederate side since many of the records were | | | | of Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. |
| lost or destroyed. Estimates, however, put the total | | | | This is believed to be the only wife of a Union |
| number of Civil War deaths at over 600,000 for both | | | | General to be taken prisoner. When her identity was |
| sides combined. Of that number, just over 200,000 | | | | discovered, Forrest had her released immediately. |
| were from combat and the rest were from disease | | | | 10. The first submarine to sink an enemy ship was |
| and other causes. | | | | the H.L. Hunley. On February 17, 1864, the |
| 5. It was not a forgone conclusion that Robert E. Lee | | | | Confederate submarine, with a crew of 8 including |
| would command the Confederate States Army. In | | | | Confederate Lt. George Dixon, set off into the |
| many ways he sympathized with the North. He | | | | Charleston Harbor to sink the Union ship U.S.S. |
| considered slavery wrong and supported the | | | | Housatonic. The sub was man powered by hand |
| preservation of the Union, yet he turned down | | | | cranks attached to the propeller shaft. They were |
| Lincoln's offer to command Union forces. In the end, | | | | successful in attaching an explosive to the U.S.S. |
| his loyalty to his state of Virginia was stronger than | | | | Housatonic and detonating it, sending the ship to the |
| his loyalty to the Union. | | | | bottom, however, before it could return to port, the |
| 6. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln invited Grant and his wife | | | | H.L. Hunley sank to the bottom also killing its entire |
| to join he and Mrs. Lincoln in Washington. Mrs. Grant | | | | crew. |