Facts About The Civil War - By: Ann

The bloodiest battles of the War were:
Gettysburg (3 days) ....................... 51,116 casualties
Antietam (1 day) ............................ 22,726 casualties
Seven Days Battle .......................... 36,463 casualties

The Confederate regiments sustaining the greatest losses in one battle were:
26th North Carolina ................ 86 killed 588 wounded (Gettysburg)
6th Alabama ....................... 91 killed 277 wounded (Seven Pines)
4th North Carolina................. 77 killed 286 wounded (Seven Pines)
44th Georgia ..................... 71 killed 264 wounded (Mechanicsville)

There were more Northern-born Confederate generals than Southern-born Union generals.

The general with the longest name was union General Alexander Schimmelfennig

The largest cavalry battle took place at Brandy Station Virginia, June 9, 1863.

There were 100 men in a Company and 10 Companies in a Regiment.

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson often went about camp handing out Sunday school leaflets.

Approximately 3 million men served at some point between 1861 and 1865, about 900,000 for the Confederacy and 2.1 million for the Union. An estimated 300 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the ranks. About 180,000 African American men served in the Union army. By the time of the Confederate surrender in 1865, there were more African Americans in the Union army than there were soldiers in the Confederate army.

More than 3,000 horses were killed at Gettysburg

3,530 Indians who fought for the Union, 1,018 were killed

Within the Civil War soldiers Three hundred were thirteen or under-most of these fifers or drummers, but regularly enrolled, and sometimes fighters. Twenty-five were ten or under

Archibald Gracie, Jr., survived the sinking of the Titanic.

General Stonewall Jackson walked around with his right hand in the air to balance the blood flow in his body? Because he was right-handed, he thought that his right hand was getting more blood than his left, and so by raising his hand, he'd allow the excess blood to run into his left hand. He also never ate food that tasted good, because he assumed that anything that tasted good was completely unhealthy.

Union privates were paid $13 per month until after the final raise of 20 June '64, when they got $16. In the infantry and artillery, officer was as follows at the start of the war: colonels, $212; lieutenant colonels, $181; majors, $169; captains, $115.50; first lieutenants, $105.50; and second lieutenants, $105.50. Other line and staff officers drew an average of about $15 per month more. Pay for one, two, and three star generals was $315, $457, and $758, respectively.

The Confederate pay structure was modeled after that of the US Army. Privates continued to be paid at the prewar rate of $11 per month until June '64, when the pay of all enlisted men was raised $7 per month.

Alfred Thomas Archmedes Torbert held commissions in both USA and CSA armies simultaneously

Surgeons never washed their hands after an operation, because all blood was assumed to be the same, nor did he wash his instruments

After the Battle of Gettysburg the discarded rifles were collected and sent to Washington to be inspected and reissued? Of the 37,574 rifles recovered,

At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War

Of every 1,000 Federals in battle, 112 were wounded

Of every 1,000 Confederates, 150 were hit

The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, in a charge at Petersburg, Virginia, 18 June 1864, sustained a "record" loss of the war-635 of its 900 men within seven minutes.

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