User:Lordoliver/DYK

Civil War DYKs

 * ... that Confederate General James Argyle Smith was shot through both thighs and survived? December 2, 2008
 * ... that Confederate General Henry C. Wayne (pictured) gained a First Class Medal of Mammal Division by the Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation for his introduction of the camel to the United States? December 1, 2008
 * ... that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army, without fighting a single battle? November 29, 2008
 * ... that John H. Kelly was the youngest Confederate Brigadier General at the time of his appointment at 23, and one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War at 24? November 21, 2008
 * ... that the day after his birthday, General Archibald Gracie III was looking out at the Union lines through his telescope when an artillery shell exploded in front of him killing him instantly? November 16, 2008
 * ... that General James Deshler was killed instantly by a Union cannon's artillery shell at the Battle of Chickamauga? November 10, 2008
 * ... that in 1894, US$20,000 to US$40,000 mysteriously disappeared from the Mississippi Levee Board, of which General Samuel W. Ferguson (pictured) was both secretary and treasurer? October 30, 2008
 * ... that the wool used in the uniforms of the Confederate military (pictured) caused many Confederate soldiers to suffer from heatstrokes on long marches?October 16, 2008