OT- War between the States Part 6.

[Gun Smith]

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If Blue and Grey didn't meet at Gettysburg during annual reunions, they at least met on the banks of the Nile. No Less than 50 former Union and Confederate officers held the rank of colonel or above in the Army of the Khedive during the 1870's. Two ex-Confederate generals and three former Union officers attained the rank of general in the Egyptian Army, holding such positions as Chief of Staff, Chief of Engineers, and Chief Ordinance Officer.

Major Clifton Prentiss of the 6th Maryland Infantry (Union) and his younger brother William, of the second Maryland Infantry (Confererate), were both mortally wounded when their regiments clashed at Petersburg on April 2, 1865 - just seven days before hostilities ceased. Both were removed from the battlefield and after a separation of four years, they were taken to the same hospital in Washington. Each fought and each died for his cause.

The confederate cruiser Shenandoah sailed completely around the world raiding Union commerce vessels and whalers. The ship and crew surrendered to British authorities at Liverpool in November 1865, seven months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

During Sherman's campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, the Union Army of the Tennessee, in a period of four months, constructed over 300 miles of rifle pits, fired 149,670 artillery rounds and 22,137,132 rounds of small arms ammunition.

To fire a Civil War musket, eleven separate motions had to be made. The regulation in the 1860's specified that a soldier should fire three aimed shots per minute, allowing 20 seconds per shot and less than 2 seconds per motion.

* I seem to remember reading about muskets picked up on battlefields that had several loads stacked one on top of the other. In the heat of battle the soldiers never fired their weapons , in terror and confusion they just kept loading.*

[Hobie]

My wife's GGGrandfather Erasmus Dortch was drafted into an Alabama infantry regiment but died in England. I've been wondering if he managed to or was forced aboard a Confederate raider/blockade runner and that was how he got there.

[gamekeeper]

Quite a few people I talk to over here about the War of Northern Aggression are really surprised that the last surrender was at Liverpool!.
During the conflict British Royal naval officers were taking leave to become blockade runners for the Confederacy and making a lot of money I believe.

[Ysabel Kid]

During the conflict British Royal naval officers were taking leave to become blockade runners for the Confederacy and making a lot of money I believe.

You are correct!