Portal:American Civil War/Did you know
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- ... that The Land We Love, a little magazine that merged into Southern Magazine, printed American Civil War recollections, poetry, agricultural material, and many works by female authors?
- ... that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union's war policy?
- ... that Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the Knights of Pythias, served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
- ... that the Confederate States Navy ordered six Squib-class torpedo boats from England, but they were never delivered?
- ... that Dubuque, Arkansas, was destroyed in the American Civil War and is now covered by the waters of Bull Shoals Lake?
- ... that in the aftermath of the American Civil War, the only Black-led organization providing teachers to formerly enslaved people was the African Civilization Society?