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Abraham Lincoln

In the 1860 election he lost his home county in Illinois to his rival Stephen Douglas.
He was the first president to wear a beard.
He held a patent for a machine that would lift boats over shoals.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Upon birth he was not named for 6 weeks.
He refused to eat chicken, sauces and dressings but enjoyed sliced cucumbers in vinegar.
Asked after Vicksburg if he had an interest in politics, he answered, ''Yes, I want to run for mayor of Galena'', Illinois.
He and Robert E. Lee met face-to-face only 4 times.

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Robert E. Lee

He lost Arlington for tax delinquency. He owed $140.
As president of Washington College he started the first journalism course at an American college.
Gerald Ford pardoned him August 5, 1975.

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Jefferson Davis

As Franklin Pierce's Secretary of War, he brought camels to the American Southwest.
When he asked for the hand of Varina Howell, he was only 2 and a half years younger than Varina's mother.
Indicted for treason after the war, US Attorney General Joshua Speed admitted that 'any competent and independent tribunal' would acquit him.
He was set free after posting a $100,000 bail. Horace Greeley and Cornelius Vanderbilt contributed in meeting that amount.

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George Armstrong Custer

He was not in favor of Abraham Lincoln's candidacy in 1860.
A free spirit at West Point he once asked a professor, ''Sir, how would you say 'Class dismissed' in Spanish?'' Upon hearing the answer he promptly led all the cadets out of the classroom.
He graduated dead last...34th of 34...in the West Point Class of 1861.
During the Civil War he had 11 horses shot out from under him. He was wounded only once.

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

Once he asked for the hand of Mary Ann Montgomery only to be told by her uncle, ''...I cannot consent. You cuss and gamble and Mary Ann is a Christian girl.'' Forrest's reply was, ''I know it and that's just why I want her.''
At a dinner during the war a woman asked, ''Why is your hair gray while your beard remains dark?'' to which he replied, ''Because I work my brains more than I work my jaws.''
Once wounded by one of his own command, he stormed, ''No man kills me and lives.''
During the Civil War he survived four major wounds. He had 29 horses shot from under him and personally killed 30 men.

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Females disguised as male soldiers

Documentation shows some 250 women who disguised their sex in order to enlist.
Jennie Hodgers, alias ''Albert Cashier'' of the 95th Illinois, maintained her secret identity until 1911.
Charlotte Hopper, alias 'Charlie Hopper' of Virginia volunteered after her fiancé was killed. She vowed to kill 21 Federals…one for every year of his life.

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Soldiers

The average common soldier was 26 years of age, 5' 8¼ inches tall, weighed 143½ pounds, had brown hair, blue eyes and before the war was a farmer.
The 37th Iowa was known as the ''Greybeards''. 145 men were 60 or more years of age.
One of every 43 actively engaged was killed. One of every 7 was wounded and one of every 38 died of their wounds. One of every 10 in combat was captured and one of every 7 would die in prison.
The 39th New York had 15 different nationalities and a Hungarian officer who gave orders in 7 languages.

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