Did you know...
- 64,000 Canadians enlisted in the Union Army and that several thousand
served with the Army of the Confederate States of America.
- 29 Canadians were awarded the newly minted Congressional Medal of Honour
for valour.
- a Canadian woman, Sarah Emma Edmonds, served as an infantryman in the 2nd
Michigan Regiment.
- John Wilkes Booth was in Montreal three times in 1864 and opened a bank
account at the Montreal Branch of the Ontario Bank. It is believed that
Lincoln's assassination was plotted in Montreal.
- Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America lived in
Lennoxville, Quebec from May 1867 to June 1868.
- Canadians in the Civil War were described by Sir John A. MacDonald as "those
brave men who fought for freedom".
- The stolen funds from the October 19, 1864 St. Albans, Vermont raid were
deposited in the Montreal Branch of the Ontario Bank.
- Canadian born Anderson Abbott was one of the only eight Black doctors serving
in the Union Army.
- Dr. Theoren Woolverton of Grimsby served in the United States Navy during the
Civil War and obtained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.