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47. Georgia's Governor Joseph E. Brown, hoping to meet the weapon shortage in the South, ordered the production of thousand iron-tipped pikes, to be used for arming Georgia troops. The useless weapons became known as "Joe Brown's Pikes."
48. Richmond, Virginia was officially surrendered to Union forces in Richmond's city hall at
8:15 a.m., on Monday, April 3, 1865.
49. On June 19, 1864, the USS Kearsarge engaged and sank the CSS Alabama off the coast of France, putting an end to the Confederate commerce raider's 21-month global cruise, which claimed more than 60 ships valued at almost $6 million.
50. General Stonewall Jackson suffered a mortal wound, inflicted by his own troops, on May 2, 1863, at the Battle of Chancellorsville. General James Longstreet was seriously wounded by friendly-fire on May 6, 1864, during the Battle of the Wilderness, a little over a year after and near the same site of Jackson's unfortunate accident.
51. During the course of the war, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest had twenty-nine horses shot from under him.
52. Over thirty years after hostilities ended, the Louisiana Historical Society published a list of Civil War relics presented to it by 23 donors during a period of just three months. Among the 130 items listed was a lock of hair of Confederate Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, which was clipped from his head while the General's body was in the hands of the Federals who killed him. Another item worth mentioning was an iron fork, with a handle made from the bone of a Federal soldier.
53. On January 13th, 1861, P.G.T. Beauregard became superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. During his fourth day on the job, however, he was removed from office because of his outspoken sympathy for seceded states.
54. During the thirty-eight hour exchange at Fort Sumter, sixty-nine big guns fired more than 3,000 rounds, and killed not a single man.
55. The first Union regiment to cross the Potomac River and enter Virginia was the 12th New York Militia, which, on May 2, 1861, left Washington D.C., and occupied an advance position in northern Virginia.
56. "Tangle foot" and "oil of gladness" were nicknames Union soldiers applied to alcoholic beverages.
57. On April 3, 1865, when Richmond was finally captured by Federal forces, Major Atherton H. Stevens, Jr., became the first man to raise the Federal colors over the Confederate capitol, when he raised a U.S. flag over the Virginia statehouse, where the Confederate Congress had met.
58. When George Armstrong Custer left West Point to join the Union cause, the cavalry commander who would become a general at age 23, was ranked last in his class, and on detention for excessive demerits.
59. Before the war, Confederate General A.P. Hill proposed marriage to Ellen Marcy, a young woman who would later marry Union General George B. McClellan.
60. The official pay for a Union private was $13 a month, until May 1864, when it was raised to $16 a month.
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