Here are some intersting thing you may not have known about the Civil War
Outmoded Weapons
In a minor battle at Ream's Station, CSA Capt. Shade Wooten of the 27th North Carolina Regiment resorted to perhaps the most primitive of all weapons employed during the war.
"Three times ," reported a fellow officer, "he found an enemy poking his gun up to shoot him. Wooten then grabbed a handful of dirt from the embankment, dashed it into the eyes of his opponent, and saved his life"
--Civil War Curiousities
Rally Round the Flag boys!
It's doubtful that most who carried the Confederate battle flag or saw it in later years realized the full meaning of its stars.
Thought only eleven states seceded from the Union, the flag bears thirteen starts one for each seceded state and one each for divided Kentucky and Missouri.
--Civil War Curiousities
Strange but True
In the 36 hour siege of Fort Sumter that began the Civil War..Although many of Sumters guns were destroyed and put out of commision.. Several hundred shells fired from both sides....
No one was killed on either side. The only reason the siege ended was because Fort Sumter ran out of supplies and Major Anderson was forced to surrender. Ironically, the first offical casulty
of the Civil War was at Fort Sumter but not during the battle. In a hundred gun salute to the Stars and Stripes..before they were taken down and the Stars and Bars run up the pole.... one of the cannon blew up and killed one member of the cannon crew.
