Oct 22-25: Gettysburg

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.

Robert Steinmetz

Killer Angels
What made the mutineers want to join up with the 20th Maine before Gettysburg? Was it Chamberlain or was it just for other reasons? Does anyone happen to know the background on this particular regiment (2nd Maine)??

Jeb Stuart
Did he have an ego problem after losing at Brandy Station?? Why did he disappear on the march north into Pennsylvania?

Robert Steinmetz

Killer Angels

What made the mutineers want to join up with the 20th Maine before Gettysburg? Was it Chamberlain or was it just for other reasons? Does anyone happen to know the background on this particular regiment (2nd Maine)??

Oct 15-18

Robert Steinmetz

I've heard about the argument Bragg had with himself. Supposedly it had to do with his service in the army out West before the Civil War. He was a post commander and quartermaster at the same time. Bragg refused his own request for supplies. Weird!

Sure Lincoln should have gotten rid of the ineffective generals sooner, but I think he still had some hope that one of them could get a victory in Virginia. McClellan knew how to get the army ready to fight again and raise morale even after they had been beaten (7 Days Battles, 2nd Bull Run).

How might the war have changed had generals like Grant & Sherman been put in command much sooner???

This is crazy.

I know that some of the battles that were fought and lost on the field affected the generals, but come on. Why couldn't they realize that the best way to save their men is to fight and win making the total conflict shorter therefor making the war itself shorter. I think that Lincoln should have replaced his bad Generals faster with those who were winning on the western front.
Also, my no-it-all sister told me a story about Braxton Braggs having a written arguement with himself at one point in the war. Has anyone else heard of this? I have found a couple of places on the internet with the story but was unsure about it's crediblity.