Interesting Facts:
1) General Stonewall Jackson walked with his right hand in the air to balance the blood in his body and he never ate any food that tasted good because he assumed that anything that tasted good was completely unhealthy.
2) Confederate President Jefferson Davis was blind in his left eye.
3) By the end of the war 1/4 of the draft age men of the South were dead.
4) About four-thousand cannon shells were fired at Fort Sumter.
5) There was no penicillin so many died from infection which could not be cured.
The Civil War began on July 21, 1861. In 1861, Wilmer McLean was a farmer in North Virginia with his family. The war pretty much began in his own backyard but out of concern for his family he moved them to central Virginia. He was a retired Major in the Virginian militia. He lived in the house at Appomattox Courthouse and it was in his home that General Robert E. Lee and General Grant discussed and came to terms on the surrender. The war started in his backyard on July 21, 1861, and ended in his parlor in 1865.
http://www.historynet.com/civil-war
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