Civil War- AJ

• If you were drafted during the American Civil War you could legally pay someone else 300$ to go in to your place. The last surviving civil war widow didn't pass away until 2008. She married an 86 year old veteran when she was only 19.
• There's a colony in Brazil founded by 2,000 to 4,000 confederate refugees who left the U.S. after losing the civil war. The U.S had a balloon corps established by Abraham Lincoln.
• Sideburns are named after American civil war general, General Burnside. American civil war soldiers had a code of honor that forbade shooting at men that were going to the bathroom.
• More than 600 women dressed as men so that they could fight in the civil war. During the American civil war, it was necessary to print out money in a hurry, so the Treasury  released paper bills with designated values of fractions of a dollar.
• There are more black men in prison today than there were black male slaves before the American civil war. The confederate  Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men during a major civil war battle.