FACTS
- The union army was twice the size of the confederate army
- many of the doctors during the civil war never went to medical school.
- 300 woman dressed up as men to fight in the civil war
- the artillery fire during pickets charge could be heard in Pittsburgh
- Stonewall Jackson was killed by his own men
- Civil war was known as the Brother war
- Lincoln was shot at and was almost killed two years before he was assassinated
- Robert E Lee's house was captured by the the union and was used as a cemetery
- Many of the men who served in the civil war were 21 years and younger
- Fort Sumter was never taken over again by the union
- Half the solders who fought in the civil war died from diseases
- The Civil war started in Wilmer McLean's front yard and ended in his parlor