Portal:American Civil War/Did you know/10

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• Nathan Bedford Forrest was a millionaire (mostly from the slave trade) at the outset of the American Civil War, yet had enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army?
• Ulyses S. Grant actually retreated to Paducah, Kentucky after the Battle of Belmont, having been bombarded by cannon fire from Confederate cannons at Columbus, Kentucky across the river, in his first American Civil War campaign?
• In terms of force strength, the Battle of Westport was the largest single combat engagement on the North American continent west of the Mississippi River in U.S. History?
• That seventeen Secretaries of War eventually were involved in the lengthy process of compiling, editing and publishing the government publication The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies ?