Portal:American Civil War/DYK/01

...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
...that William Stewart Simkins, who later became professor emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law, may have fired the first shot of the US Civil War?