Portal:American Civil War/DYK/02

... that salt workers in the Confederate States of America were immune from being drafted? ... that Edward Jardine, after commanding 200 Union troops in an attempt to quell the New York Draft Riots, only escaped the rioters by wearing civilian clothes? ... that the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama? ... that Maine produced more Union soldiers in proportion to its population than any other Union state in the American Civil War?