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Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who had 29 horses shot out from under him during the Civil War, was born on
Friday July 13 1821.
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There was supposedly a private in the Confederate Army named
Abraham Lincoln
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The famed, Welsh explorer, and journalist Henry M. Stanley (right) - the guy who coined the phrase, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"- served in the American Civil War. That is not all, he served in three different services. First, he served as a private in the
Confederate Army
, and was taken prisoner at the
Battle of Shiloh
in 1862. As a prisoner, he was recruited and joined the
Union Army
, but was discharged less than three weeks later due to illness. Finally, in 1864 he joined the Union Navy and served aboard the
USS Minnesota,
but he jumped ship in February 1865.
I guess he had more important things to do! Therefore, Stanley is possibly the only man to serve in both armies and one navy in the American Civil War...
And Lastly This i Found interesting/Amusing And have Never Read That our beloved General Robert E lee had a chicken with him in the Civil War
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General Robert E
. Lee had a pet chicken named "Nellie" that laid an egg under his cot almost every morning...
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