Portal:American Civil War/Did you know

... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?
... that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright?
... that Colonel Bradley Winslow was brevetted by US president Abraham Lincoln for "brave and gallant conduct" during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War?
... that Edward W. Gantt was a Confederate soldier who defected to the Union during the American Civil War?
... that in the aftermath of the American Civil War, the only Black-led organization providing teachers to formerly enslaved people was the African Civilization Society?
... that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union's war policy?