Portal:American Civil War/Did you know/Suggest
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[edit] Welcome to the American Civil War Portal Did you know suggestion page
This is the place to suggest worthy and qualified items to appear on the portal as Did you know questions for the month. The query might teach the reader something new or provocative about the subject matter. Ideal items will be in this familiar format below, and should read as if they naturally follow the query "Did you know..." and end in a question mark.
Examples (from archive): Did you know...
- The Volunteer Quartemaster by General Roeliff Brinkerhoff was written during the American Civil War and considered the definitive text on military logistics up until the First World War?
- In terms of force strength, the Battle of Westport was the largest single land engagement on the North American continent west of the Mississippi River in U.S. History?
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- Of the 109 Union prisoners of war who escaped Richmond, Virginia's Libby Prison in February, 1864, 59 reached the safety of Union lines?