Portal:American Civil War/Did you know

... that the Confederate States Navy ordered six Squib-class torpedo boats from England, but they were never delivered?
... that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union's war policy?
... 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?
... that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship-versus-ship action of the American Civil War?
... that during the American Civil War, Charles K. Prioleau made a fortune by smuggling arms to the Confederacy on board the blockade runner Bermuda?
... that Colonel Bradley Winslow was brevetted by US president Abraham Lincoln for "brave and gallant conduct" during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War?

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