Some Things You Might Not Know About the Civil War-- Part 1

From the San Angelo Standard Times.

** Federal authorities in Baltimore imprisoned the mayor, police chief and others suspected of Southern sympathy, including the grandson of Francis Scott Key in May 1861 after the attack on Union troops moving through there to protect Washington, DC.

** Texan Albert Sydney Johnston commanded the US Department of the Pacific in California in early 1861. He refused to join in a Southern plot to capture the state, but resigned his commission when he learned Texas had seceded.

He went to Los Angeles where he enlisted as a private in the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, a pro-Southern group and rode with them across Arizona and New Mexico into Texas. He joined the Confederate Army and rose eventually to the second-highest rank before being killed at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862.

** Union General Lew Wallace later wrote "Ben Hur," but organized thousands of volunteers to defend Cincinnati when it was threatened by Confederates in 1862.

More to Come. --Old Secesh