civil war, n.Trivia

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated only four days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Hand grenades were widely used in the U.S. Civil War.

After the Civil war, 10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil

After losing the Civil War, between two and four thousand Confederates left the U.S. to found a colony in Brazil.

10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil after the American Confederacy lost the Civil War in May 1865

It was legal during the Civil War to pay someone else to take your place if you were drafted.

The Civil War was responsible for the death of more than two percent of the American population.