Fascinating Facts about the Civil War

At Andersonville Prison, disease, malnutrition and abuse claimed many lives. An average of 127 men died each day, meaning that bodies were buried at the rate of one every eleven minutes. This death rate was higher than that of most battles.

Civil War weapons were so inaccurate that it is estimated that for every soldier shot, they needed 240 pounds of gunpowder and 900 pounds of lead.

Galusha Pennypacker was the youngest General of the Civil War. He was only 17 years old in 1861.

Paul Revere's grandson, Colonel Paul Revere was killed during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Seventeen of the fifty-one Confederate generals who fought at Gettysburg were killed in battle.

The Civil War lasted for 1,396 day, from 1861 until 1865. Approximately 623,000 soldiers died in about 10,455 military “events”.

The fighting in Spotsylvania was so intense that a white oak tree, almost two feet in diameter was cut down by bullets.

There was another Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War who was on the opposite side. Private Abraham Lincoln was a Confederate deserter from Virginia.

When he fell from a platform at a train station, Robert Lincoln was saved by famous actor Edwin Booth, brother of the man who would assassinate his father just a few months later.