• 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?

Facts on topics related to Australia and the American Civil War

American Civil War

• Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid, using two stovepipes, charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War?
• Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War?
• Alabama land- and slave-owner Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (pictured), reputed to be America's richest man in 1860, lost a half million dollars during the American Civil War?
• American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
• American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"?
• Captain William Reynolds, a veteran of the American Civil War, formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano?
• Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight?
• French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War, sparking an international incident?
• Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter L. Bragg died after suffering from the effects of Civil War wounds, a quarter century after the war ended?
• Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?

Melbourne

• 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?
• Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) Henry Wrigley (pictured) piloted the first trans-Australia flight, from Melbourne to Darwin, in 1919?
• Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
• theater producer William May was inspired to create Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience (pictured) after watching cranes constructing the Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne?
• Frank Loughran played for the Socceroos at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, scoring a goal in the first game his adopted country of Australia ever played in Olympic soccer?
• Harold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
• Jimmy Melbourne, who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne, was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level?
• new evidence has revealed that Australian artist Tom Roberts painted much of his masterpiece Shearing the Rams on location en plein air, not in his Melbourne studio?
• the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap, a fungus from eastern Australia, found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War?
• the National Gallery of Victoria only purchased Australian artist Frederick McCubbin's triptych The pioneer after he reworked the painting to add a view of the city of Melbourne in the background?

Bahamas in the American Civil War

• due to the American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports increase by a factor of 29.6?

Federation of Australia

• when the six separate British colonies in Australia federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, they all had their own armies fighting in the Second Boer War?

Prussia in the American Civil War

• six Prussians served as generals for the Union army in the American Civil War?