Portal:American Civil War/Did you know

... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?
... that according to one historian, James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to the Confederate war effort" by getting drunk?
... that the Confederate States Navy ordered six Squib-class torpedo boats from England, but they were never delivered?
... that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
... that Carter Moore Braxton fought for the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War and, according to one report, had seven horses killed under him but avoided any wounds?
... that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the American Civil War?