Portal:American Civil War/Did you know
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- ... 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 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 Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the Knights of Pythias, served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
- ... 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?
- ... that Dubuque, Arkansas, was destroyed in the American Civil War and is now covered by the waters of Bull Shoals Lake?