The Union Army consisted of between 2.5 to 2.7 million men while the Confederate forces had 750,000 to 1.2 million men.
 
The Union Army lost approximately 360,000 men during the war. Only 110,070 of these men were listed as having been killed in battles. The remainder were listed as having died of disease or other causes.
 
The Confederate forces lost approximately 258,000 men with 94,000 listed as having died in battles while 164,000 were listed as having died of diease or other causes. The figures of the Confederate's  will never be known for sure because many records were either lost or distroyed.
  
The Confederate forces lost 63 Brigadier Generals,7 Major Generals,3 Lieutenant Generals during the war.
 
No one knows the identity of the war's youngest soldier, but on the Confederate side, in particular, there was one who I will mention he was
George S. Lamkin of Winona, Mississippi, who joined Stanford's Mississippi Battery when he was eleven, and before his twelfth birthday was severely wounded at Shiloh.
 
    The first military decoration formally authorized by the American government was, the Medal of Honor  created by an act of Congress in December 1861. by Senator James W Grimes of Iowa, the Medal of Honor was awarded liberally during the Civil War to about 1,200 men. According to the act establishing the army medal, the award was to be given to those members of the armed forces who "shall distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action, and other soldier like qualities.
    In 1916, Congress considerably tightened the rules for eligibility, requiring that a serviceman come into actual contact with an enemy and perform bravely at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty. Congress also created a board of five retired generals to review all previous award recipients for eligibility and found that about 911-most of them Civil War veterans did not meet the new standards and thus struck them from the list.
  
   May 13, 1865 -- The last land engagement of the Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.
Interesting Facts
       TOP 10
MAJOR BATTLES
#1 Battle of Gettysburg
51,112 Casualties Union 23,049
Confederate 28,063
# 2 Battle of Chickamauga
34,624 Casualties, 16,170 union
Confederate 18,454                     #3 Battle of Chancellorsville
30,099 Caualties Union 17,278
Confederate 12,821
#4 Battle of Sposylvania
27,399 Casualties Union 18,399 Confederate 9,000
#5 Battle of Antietam
26,134 Casualties Union 12,240
Confederate 13,724
#6 Battle of the Wilderness
25,416 Casualties Union 17,666
Confederate 7,750
#7 Battle of The Second Manassas
25,251 Casualties Union 16,054
Confederate 9197
#8 Battle of Stone's River
24,645Casualties  Union 12,906
Confederate 11,739
#9 Battle of Shiloh
Casualties 23,741 Union 13,047
Confederate 10,694
#10 Battle of Fort Donnelson
Casualties 16,623 Union 2,832
Confederate 16,623
           Cost of the War
  In dollars and cents, the U.S. government estimated Jan. 1863 that the war was costing $2.5 million daily. A final official estimate in 1879 totaled $6,190,000,000. The Confederacy spent perhaps $2,099,808,707. By 1906 another $3.3 billion already had been spent by the U.S. government on Northerners' pensions and other veterans' benefits for former Federal soldiers. Southern states and private philanthropy provided benefits to the Confederate veterans. The amount spent on benefits eventually well exceeded the war's original cost.
   In Dixie as in the North the press blandly printed vital information. Preparing for the Battle of Chickamauga in Tennessee, Confederate General Braxton Bragg received a New York Times clipping which explained precisely how the Unionists would fool him into a shift of position. Bragg stayed put. Near Vicksburg a Northern spy brought his superior a newspaper story in which a correspondent described in full the Federal plans for a "secret canal" behind the Mississippi. The project had to be dropped.
    More than perhaps any other Southern general, Robert E. Lee used secret agents to supply him with every available Northern newspaper. The Virginian studied them by the hour, noting, comparing, questioning. A Southern spy with a copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer provided information of a withdrawal by McClellan; as a result, Lee shifted thousands of troops. The Southerner's military shrewdness kept him from accepting false stories planted for his benefit, and Lee himself once inserted a fake in Confederate papers.
Spies of the war
  During the war with the Confederacy, there were 123 torpedoes planted in Charleston harbor and Stono river, which prevented the capture of that city and its conflagration. There were 101 torpedoes planted in Roanoke river, North Carolina, by which, of twelve vessels sent with troops and means to capture Fort Branch, but five returned. One was sunk by the fire from the fort, and the rest by torpedoes. Of the five iron clads sent with other vessels to take Mobile, Alabama (one was tin clad), three were destroyed by torpedoes. There were fifty eight vessels sunk by torpedoes in the war, and some of them of no small celebrity, as Admiral Farragut's flagship the Harvest Moon, the Thorn, the Commodore Jones, the Monitor Patapsco, Ram Osage, Monitor Milwaukee, Housatonic and others.
Torpedoes
General's                               Horse
Ulysses S. Grant                     Cincinnati
Robert E Lee                          Traveller
Stonewall Jackson                   Little Sorrel
Albert S.Johnston                   Fire Eater
J.E.B. Sturat                      Virginia and Highfly
George G. Meade                     Old Baldy

Over 1 million horses died during the war.
The General's Horses
  Confederate Memorial Day has all but lost its significance in Southern society. The holliday was widely celebarted across the South until World Wars I and II, when those Wars robbed the Southerners of family members, National Memorial Day suddenly became more important.
   There is some mystery surrounding the holliday's history. Historians generally believe it sprung up simultaneously in cities around the South even before the War ended. The Holliday is still celebrated by the Sons and Daughters of Confederate Veterans and other organizations but by few others.  Some question  holding a separate memorial service for Confederate dead, but there is another reason. The U.S. memorial services are held in national cemeteries, and Confederate soldiers were not allowed to be buried in national cemeteries.
Confederate Memorial Day
Confederate Memorial Day
Mississippi: The last Monday in April.
Alabama: The Fourth Monday in April.
Georgia: April 26th.
North and South Carolina: The 10th of May.
Louisiana and Tennessee: The 3rd of June.
Texas: January The 19th.
Virginia: On the last Monday of May.
Florida: April 26th.
Arkansas: June the 9th.
  Robert E. Lee's last words "I will give that sum," and not "Strike the tent." as invented by Douglas S. Freeman, Oddly, no one in the Lee family knew what Lee meant in the first instance.

   The Winchester Company produced over 58 million bullets  during the war.

   Union commander Benjamin F. Butler and his Union army lost every battle, every campaign and every engagement they ever fought.

   The only father-son winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor were Arthur MacArthur, Jr., Lookout Mountain and his son, Douglas MacArthur, W.W.II fame

   Thomas Custer brother of George Armstrong Custer was the only man in the war to win two Congressional Medals of Honor.

   Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, owned over 3,000 slaves on his Southern family plantation.

   Union General John Sedgwick was killed at Spotslvania by a sharpshooter, moments after saying, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

   Albert J. Cashier a pensioned Civil War soldier was involved in an automobile accident in 1911. and old Al was discovered to be a woman!
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