Portal:American Civil War/Did you know

... that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship-versus-ship action of the American Civil War?
... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?
... that Dubuque, Arkansas, was destroyed in the American Civil War and is now covered by the waters of Bull Shoals Lake?
... that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright?
... 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 after the Little Rock campaign, Union forces held three-quarters of Arkansas?