Portal:American Civil War/Did you know

... that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union's war policy?
... that Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the Knights of Pythias, served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
... that S. Isaac, Campbell & Company, a British firm, was a major supplier of arms to the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
... that the Battle of Saint Charles featured what is known as the deadliest shot of the American Civil War?
... that according to one historian, James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to the Confederate war effort" by getting drunk?
... that the state of Illinois erected both the Illinois Memorial and the Illinois Monument on American Civil War battlefields in the early 1900s?

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