Lincoln did not believe that whites and blacks could live together in peace. He had planned to relocate the entire black population of the United States to Central America.
In the battle of Gettysburg, 1100 ambulances were in use. The medical director of the Union army boasted that all the wounded were picked up from the field within 12 hours after the battle was over. This was a far cry from the second battle of Bull Run, when many of the wounded were left on the field in the rain, heat, and sun for three or four days.
The Union Army consisted of between 2.5 to 2.7 million men while the Confederate forces had 750,000 to 1.2 million men.
The Union Army lost approximately 360,000 men during the war. Only 110,070 of these men were listed as having been killed in battles. The remainder were listed as having died of disease or other causes.
The Confederate forces lost 63 Brigadier Generals, 7 Major Generals, 3 Lieutenant Generals during the war.
The first military decoration formally authorized by the American government was, the Medal of Honor created by an act of Congress in December 1861. by Senator James W Grimes of Iowa, the Medal of Honor was awarded liberally during the Civil War to about 1,200 men. According to the act establishing the army medal, the award was to be given to those members of the armed forces who "shall distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action, and other soldier like qualities.
No one knows the identity of the war's youngest soldier, but on the Confederate side, in particular, there was one who I will mention he was George S. Lamkin of Winona, Mississippi, who joined Stanford's Mississippi Battery when he was eleven, and before his twelfth birthday was severely wounded at Shiloh.
The Confederate forces lost approximately 258,000 men with 94,000 listed as having died in battles while 164,000 were listed as having died of diease or other causes. The figures of the Confederate's will never be known for sure because many records were either lost or distroyed.
The last land engagement of the Civil War was fought on May 13, 1865 at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.
