Portal:American Civil War/Did you know

... that at the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits in July 1944, a Confederate flag dating to the American Civil War was raised over the town?
... that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship-versus-ship action of the American Civil War?
... that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union's war policy?
... that according to one historian, James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to the Confederate war effort" by getting drunk?
... that after the Little Rock campaign, Union forces held three-quarters of Arkansas?
... that actor George Kunkel portrayed in blackface the character of Uncle Tom, using it at first to promote slavery during the American Civil War but later to attack it, after his views had changed?