• General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor?

Facts on topics related to Edmund Rice (general)

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?

Kansas

• Charles de Saulles coached an undefeated football team of workers from a Kansas zinc smelting works that defeated the Carlisle Indians and was dubbed "the oddest football team in the country"?
• Joseph McCoy was a 19th century cattle baron who is often cited as the inspiration for the phrase "The Real McCoy" because he made good on his pledge to Texas ranchers to get them a good price for their Longhorn cattle if they drove them from Texas to Kansas on the Chisholm Trail?
  
• Lake Scott State Park is home to El Quartelejo Ruins, the northernmost Indian pueblo in the United States and the only one known in Kansas?
• during the Indian Wars, troops stationed at Fort Harker, Kansas in 1867 performed more escorts of wagon trains in one year than troops stationed at any other frontier fort in the post-American Civil War era?
• in 1862, Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas proposed the colony of Linconia to fulfill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's vision for African-American emigration to Central America?
• in 1872, Western University in Kansas, USA, selected Charles Henry Langston, abolitionist, politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, as principal of its new normal school?
• the Cimarron Redoubt in southwestern Kansas was built as a fortification and later converted to a post office?
• the directors of Blue Mont Central College had to offer the college's building and land to the state of Kansas three times before the state accepted it and converted it into Kansas State University in 1863?
• the disputed Cherokee Strip in Kansas was the result of a boundary conflict between the Osage, Cherokee and United States federal government which lasted from 1854 until 1866?

Montana

• 'Asta Bowen's novel Wolf: A Journey Home is based on the recorded lives of a pack of wolves relocated from Pleasant Valley, Montana, to Glacier Park in 1989?
• Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a small role as Sheriff Strunk in the 2007 film A Plumm Summer?
• Montana's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
• Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
• Montana's Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (namesake landform pictured) was designated a federal wilderness study area in 1981, delisted in 1982, and designated again in 1985?
• Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
• Hell Gate, a ghost town in western Montana, was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864?
• Katie Blair became the first teenager from Montana to place in the Miss Teen USA pageant's 24 year history, when she won the Miss Teen USA 2006 crown?
• French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis, who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics, was born in Montana?
• although the Montana Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, was established in 1895, the first game warden was not hired until 1898?

North Dakota

• over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
• the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?