Interesting Facts
- One-third of the soldiers who fought for the Union Army were immigrants, and nearly one in 10 was African American.
- Black Union soldiers refused their salaries for 18 months to protest being paid lower wages than white soldiers.
- Harriet Tubman led a raid to free slaves during the Civil War.
- Lincoln was shot at—and almost killed— nearly two years before he was assassinated.
- Robert E. Lee’s Virginia estate was confiscated by the Union and turned into a cemetery during the war, now know as Arlington National Cemetery.
- More men died in the Civil War than any other American conflict, and two-thirds of the dead perished from disease.