ConfedaLot ... Confederate History

The Truth About the Great Civil War
Confederacy, Confederate History
and the word Confederate

Some are under the Mis-Conception that the Confederacy
Especially the word Confederate
is about Racism , Hatred , Bigotry etc etc .
The plain and simple Truth is, it is NOT !
The Confederacy / Confederate is a Great part of American History and
has nothing to do with Racism , Hatred , Bigotry and the like.
The Confederacy / Confederate is about History, Heritage and Pride not Hate
or Racism and is a vital part of our American History and Past .

FACT :

Civil War / Confederate History ...
Confederate

More than three million men fought in the war.
Two percent of the population - more than 620,000 people - died in it.
In two days at Shiloh, on the banks of the Tennessee River,
more Americans fell than in all previous American wars combined.

During the Battle of Antietam, 12,401 Union men were killed, missing or wounded;
double the casualties of D-Day, 82 years later. With a total of 23,000 casualties on both sides,
it was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.

At Cold Harbor, VA., 7,000 Americans fell in 20 minutes.

Senator John J. Crittendon of Kentucky had two sons who became
major generals during the Civil War: one for the North, one for the South.

Ulysses S. Grant was not fond of ceremonies or military music.
He said he could only recognize two tunes.
"One was Yankee Doodle," he grumbled. "The other one wasn’t."

Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege
of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and 22 to the Union.

During the Battle of Antietam, Clara Barton tended the wounded so close
to the fighting that a bullet went through her sleeve and killed a man she was treating.

At the start of the war, the value of all manufactured goods produced in all the
Confederate states added up to less than one-fourth of those produced in New York State alone.

In March 1862, European powers watched in worried fascination as the Monitor
and Merrimack battled off Hampton Roads, VA. From then on, after these ironclads
opened fire, every other navy on Earth was obsolete.

In 1862, the U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency, called "greenbacks."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future Chief Justice, was wounded three times during the
Civil War: in the chest at Ball’s Bluff, in the back at Antietam, and in the heel at Chancellorsville.

Confederate Private Henry Stanley fought for the Sixth Arkansas, and was captured at Shiloh,
but survived to go to Africa to find Dr. Livingston.

George Pickett’s doomed infantry charge at Gettysburg was
the first time he took his division into combat.

On July 4, 1863, after 48 days of siege, Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered
the city of Vicksburg to the Union’s General, Ulysses S. Grant.
The Fourth of July was not to be celebrated in Vicksburg for another 81 years.

Disease was the chief killer during the war, taking two men for every one who died of battle wounds.

North and South, potential recruits were offered awards,
or "bounties," for enlisting, as much as $677 in New York.
Bounty jumping soon became a profession, as men signed up, then deserted,
to enlist again elsewhere. One man repeated the process 32 times before being caught.

African Americans constituted less than one percent of the northern population,
yet by the war’s end made up ten percent of the Union Army.
A total of 180,000 black men, more than 85% of those eligible, enlisted.

In November 1863, President Lincoln was invited to offer a "few appropriate remarks"
at the opening of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg. The main speaker,
a celebrated orator from Massachusetts, spoke for nearly two hours.
Lincoln offered just 269 words in his Gettysburg Address.

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest had 30 horses shot from under
him and personally killed 31 men in hand-to-hand combat. "I was a horse ahead at the end," he said.

The words "In God We Trust" first appeared on a U.S. coin in 1864.

In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General, a rank previously
held by General George Washington, and led the 533,000 men of the Union Army,
the largest in the world. Three years later, he was made President of the United States.

Andersonville Prison in southwest Georgia held 33,000 prisoners in 1864.
It was the fifth largest city in the Confederacy.

By the end of the war, Unionists from every state except
South Carolina had sent regiments to fight for the North.

On November 9, 1863, President Lincoln attended a theater in Washington, D.C.,
to see "The Marble Heart." An accomplished actor, John Wilkes Booth, was in the cast.

On March 4, 1865, Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term.
Yards away in the crowd was John Wilkes Booth with a pistol in his pocket.
His vantage point on the balcony, he said later, offered him
"an excellent chance to kill the President, if I had wished."

On May 13, 1865, a month after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Private John J. Williams
of the 34th Indiana became the last man killed in the Civil War, in a battle at Palmito Ranch,
Texas. The final skirmish was a Confederate victory.

Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first black man ever elected
to the U.S. Senate. He filled the seat last held by Jefferson Davis.

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For those who to-date choose to condemn the
Confederate Flag , Confederacy, Confederate History
and especially the word Confederate ...
this is most likely due the the lack of true understanding and knowledge
about the Civil war , Confederate Flag , Confederacy and Confederate History
Please do not be so quick to think Racism when you see the word Confederate
or when you see a Confederate Flag !
Please get educated about it, research the truth ... its all there ...
It is NOT about Racism , Hatred , Bigotry etc
Its about True American Heritage NOT Racism and/or Hate .

Study the history ... the Truth is there .