Fast fact of the week

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.










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








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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.courtesy of

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Fast Fact every now and then

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