re: Name a little known fact about the Civil War

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The war was NOT initiated to end slavery. Lincoln wanted the southern states to pay a 40% tariff on its exports to the Union.

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The Constitution explicitly forbids taxes on the exports of any state.

"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."

ARTICLE I, SECTION 9, CLAUSE 5

After months of intentional Union artillery bombardment on civilians in Charleston, Confederate General Jones informed the Union general that 50 POWs were being moved into the city in an attempt to end the terrorizing of women, children, & other non-combatants.

In response, the Union General, supported by the Union High Command, used 500-600 Confederate POWs as human shields to "protect" the walls of his artillery batteries, despite receiving a letter from the Union POWs stating they were being well cared for & unexposed to unnecessary fire.

The Union General's war crime was futile, though, as Confederate artillery carefully aimed their barrages and completely avoided hitting any of their own POWs.

13,000 Union POW's died at Andersonville in less than a year.

The camp commander Wirz was the only war criminal who was hanged.

The only reason the Morrill tariff even passed through Congress is because the states that opposed it had left the Union.

Black Union soldiers refused their salaries for 18 months to protest being paid lower wages than white soldiers.

the confedrate officers were allowed to keep their sidearms and their horses after the war. Enlisted men had to walk home, with no gun with which to fend for their families.

Lee was damn lucky to get the terms he got from Grant! He should have kisses him on the lips!
The Radical Republicans were more interested in retribution than reunification. And most other Union generals would have hung him. Lee would have accepted that too.

Diversity was an old, wooden ship used in the Civil War.

The University of Wisconsin's football stadium is named Camp Randall after an Army training camp that was on the land during the Civil War. Later it was a hospital and POW camp. The state purchased the land from the US Army and deeded it to the University in 1893.

In March 1861, a proposed Constitutional Amendment (The Corwin Amendment) passed both the House and Senate and was ratified by five states (Kentucky, Ohio, Rhode Island, Maryland and Illinois). The text of the amendment read "No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State."

Although it was (and still is) illegal to bury Confederate soldiers in US National Cemeteries, there are two Confederates who died as POWs buried in the national cemetery at Shiloh. There are also multiple mass graves of Confederates still on the battlefield, with one containing 700 or more bodies.