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    Civil War Fact #4

    In April of 1908, a General from Philadelphia who’d been wounded at Gettysburg and lost an arm, suggested a way to mark the observance of the 50th anniversary of the battle. He mentioned his idea to then-governor of Pennsylvania, Edwin Stuart, who in turn presented it to the state’s General Assembly the following January, establishing the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg Commission later in the year. The idea was to hold a reunion on the Gettysburg Battlefield of both Union and Confederate veterans who had fought there. There had been other reunions there before, but this one was planned to be huge. The Commission helped the town of Gettysburg get ready for the 100,000 or so guests that they expected would be arriving (only about half of them veterans) and staying for the event that would run from June 29th to July 6th, 1913. The arrangements and planning were more complicated than they sound. According to the Commission’s report, during the event there were over 53,400 veterans housed in the tents. The War Department assigned nearly 1,500 military personnel to help things go smoothly. Other occupants of the village included some 155 journalists and over 2,000 cooks.

    https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/...union-of-1913/
    Lots of photos. Good read

    http://www.gettysburg.com/livinghist...913/191302.htm
    More photos

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    Civil War Fact #5

    Willis Meadows, a former Confederate soldier made national headlines when he coughed up a bullet from a wound he suffered 60 years before during the battle of Vicksburg. Out of this odd ordeal a friendship was created. It's a story that might have disappeared had Central Point resident, Henry Kilburn, not talked to a local newspaper editor in 1950.With some inaccuracies in his story, Kilburn showed the editor a diary and an enlarged photograph of a bullet, with images of two men on either side. He said the one-eyed man was Meadows and the other was Peter Knapp, of Kelso, Wash., author of the diary and the man who had fired the bullet into Meadow's eye. Turns out that after Knapp saw the story, he realized he was the one who fired the bullet that lodged near Meadows' brain. Within a few months, he contacted Meadows and when they compared notes, they realized it was true.

    https://mailtribune.com/archive/-cou...il-war-mystery
    Story worth reading

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rt-Sumter.html
    Interesting story about Peter Knapp

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    On a steamy summer day in July 1861, a host of politicians, journalists and curiosity seekers flocked from Washington, D.C to Centreville Heights in northern Virginia. “They came in all manner of ways,” a Union army captain observed, “some in stylish carriages, others in city hacks, and still others in buggies, on horseback and even on foot.” Many of the travelers carried spyglasses and picnic baskets. There were even a few merchants peddling pies and snacks." Bull Run or the 1st battle Manassas, was the first engagement of the Civil War. While most people thought there would be a quick end to the conflict, citizens and soldiers alike on both sides were unprepared for the sheer violence and chaos of battle. The combination of similiar flags, uniforms, green troops, citizen spectators made for an almost carnival-like experience.

    https://www.history.com/news/remembe...le-of-bull-run

    http://www.civil-war-facts.com/Major...un-Facts.shtml

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    Glad to be part of 2ndSC company A, and happy to serve! Yeeyee, for the confederacy!

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    Civil War Fact #7

    Confederate Captain Henry Wirz is widely known as the commandant of Andersonville prisoner of war camp. He was the only officer convicted and executed for war crimes concerning the treatment and death of almost 13,000 prisoners under his command. What isnt well known and almost forgotten in history was the mishandling and apparent "scape-goating" used at Wirz's trial. He was portrayed as an insane, neglectful, and hateful man. Accused of murder and torture by his own hands. During the trial, Wirz defense attorneys were not allowed to call most of their witnesses to the stand. Most of the indictments for murder didnt have a specific name or date, just accusations despite "witnesses". Conveniently, his repeated and recorded pleas to Richmond for more supplies and medical treatment were overshadowed by the North's apparent "witch hunt" to convict as many Southern leaders as it could, aimed at Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee. Also overlooked was his expansion of the stockade to alleviate crowding, despite the uncontrollable influx of Union prisoners as they pushed further South. Wirz allowed the prisoners to hold a fair trial for gang members within the prison that robbed and murdered their own. He wouldnt allow drummer boys to endure the conditions of the prison and segregated them from the population. Despite the shortages of food and medical supplies from Richmond, Wirz allowed a detachment of prisoners to plea in Washington DC for relief or a prisoner exchange.The North at this time realized prisoner exchanges were not in the Union's best interest because the South had only a limited number of soldiers and the exchanged Rebels would be put be back in active regiments. The most damning testimony used in the trial was that of a Union soldier named Felix de la Baume. He was really a deserter and was named Felix Oesser. Whom the war department found was never at Andersonville prison. Also, the day of his execution Wirz was offered a pardon if he testified that Jefferson Davis was to blame for the horrid conditions at Andersonville. Wirz refused the offer saying he wouldnt base his freedom on a lie. The mishandling and botched trial of Henry Wirz was quietly swept under the rug of history.

    https://www.thetribunepapers.com/2017/11/24/false-witness-the-trial-of-henry-
    wirz/


    https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/histo...xdelabaume.htm
    Last edited by Smears; 01-22-2020 at 01:21 PM.

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    Civil War Fact #8

    The term "brother against brother" is often used to describe the split of the nation during the Civil War. But there were plenty of documented events where soldiers of the North and the South showed compassion and respect for one another during lulls in battle. Unless attacked or attacking, soldiers considered it murder to shoot at the enemy. Officers on both sides frowned upon friendly encounters with the enemy because it could be detrimental to morale, causing troops to possibly not want to follow orders or shoot the enemy. One such example happened at the battle of Fredricksburg. The South was defending a stone wall at the base of Marye's Heights, and it must have been a pretty damn important stone wall, because they shot 8,000 Union soldiers in just one morning to stop them from getting to it. Sergeant Richard Kirkland decided enough was enough. So Kirkland walked up to his general and calmly stated that he couldn't bear to hear the cries of the wounded soldiers. Kirkland left the trenches and started pouring water into the mouths of wounded Union soldiers. When the enemy saw what was happening, they stopped trying to annihilate him as he moved from body to body. When he was done, he returned to safety behind the lines.

    https://www.cracked.com/article_1948...utal-wars.html

    https://www.cappersfarmer.com/humor-...ldiers-harpole

    https://books.google.com/books?id=BR...%20war&f=false
    This is a good read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smears View Post
    Civil War Fact #8

    The term "brother against brother" is often used to describe the split of the nation during the Civil War. But there were plenty of documented events where soldiers of the North and the South showed compassion and respect for one another during lulls in battle. Unless attacked or attacking, soldiers considered it murder to shoot at the enemy. Officers on both sides frowned upon friendly encounters with the enemy because it could be detrimental to morale, causing troops to possibly not want to follow orders or shoot the enemy. One such example happened at the battle of Fredricksburg. The South was defending a stone wall at the base of Marye's Heights, and it must have been a pretty damn important stone wall, because they shot 8,000 Union soldiers in just one morning to stop them from getting to it. Sergeant Richard Kirkland decided enough was enough. So Kirkland walked up to his general and calmly stated that he couldn't bear to hear the cries of the wounded soldiers. Kirkland left the trenches and started pouring water into the mouths of wounded Union soldiers. When the enemy saw what was happening, they stopped trying to annihilate him as he moved from body to body. When he was done, he returned to safety behind the lines.

    https://www.cracked.com/article_1948...utal-wars.html

    https://www.cappersfarmer.com/humor-...ldiers-harpole

    https://books.google.com/books?id=BR...%20war&f=false
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    Civil War Fact #9

    Long before the Civil War, in 1854, Lincoln addressed his own solution to slavery at a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois: “I should not know what to do as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.” While Lincoln acknowledged this was logistically impossible, by the time he assumed the Presidency and a Civil War was underfoot, the nation was in such duress that he tried it anyway. Lincoln first supported this kind of colonization — the idea that slaves should be freed and then encouraged or required to leave the United States — for well over a decade. Lincoln supported repealing slavery gradually — and possibly compensating slave owners for their losses after slaves were freed. History hails Abraham Lincoln as an abolitionist, his assassination soon after the Civil War ended left many to interpret his views of slavery. Its possible that the story of slavery in the Americas would have had a very different outcome if Lincoln hadnt met his fate at Ford's theater.

    https://www.npr.org/2011/02/21/13337...hts-on-slavery

    https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/...omewhere-else/

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    Civil War Fact #10

    Animals were commonly used for transportation of artillery, munitions, and supply wagons in the Civil War. Horses, mules, and oxen were a common sight in camps behind the front lines. It is estimated that between one million to three million "equines" were killed during the conflict. Most deaths caused by exhaustion and disease. Other animals played even larger roles as mascots during the war. Regiments on both sides had animal mascots ranging from bears, dogs and even birds. One of the most famous of these was an eagle named "Old Abe" who was carried into 42 separate engagements with the 8th Wisconsin. Never suffering a scratch. General Robert E. Lee had a pet hen that supplied him with fresh eggs every morning. During the retreat after the Battle of Gettysburg, the hen was lost and eventually found and given back to the General.

    https://www.alexandriava.gov/histori....aspx?id=40198
    Mascots in the Civil War

    https://hsp.org/blogs/hidden-histori...il-war-mascots

    http://www.thomaslegion.net/american...warhorses.html

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