For the next round of fact-a-day, we’ll be covering the Civil War!

1: The oldest soldier in the Civil War was 80 years old, and the youngest was 9.

2: The odds of a soldier surviving the war was about 1 in 4.

3: Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley, and Rutherford B. Hayes all fought in the war.

4: The average soldier was 23 years old, weighed 143 pounds, and was 5 feet 8 inches tall.

5: Almost all soldiers marched 15-20 miles a day.

6: The first state to secede from the Union was South Carolina. It seceded on December 20th, 1860

7: The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle ever fought in North America.

8: There were approximately 60,ooo partial or complete amputations during the war.

9: The national divorce rate went up 150% percent in the 20 years after the war.

10: The body of a Union soldier was found in Antietam, Maryland in 2008.

1: Hedy Lamarr was both a 4os movie actress and an inventor who came up with an idea for a radio-controlled torpedo device to help in World War II.

2: Frances Perkins was the first female member of a President’s Cabinet (she was Secretary of Labor for FDR).

3: Women outnumber men in the United States.

4: In 2013, for every dollar men earned in the US, women in the US only earned 78 cents.

5: Everybody remembers Paul Revere’s midnight ride to warn of British soldiers, but Sybil Luddington’s ride was twice the distance of Paul’s ride, and warned the troops of an attack on the city of Danbury, Connecticut.

6: Josephine Baker worked in France during World War II as a singer, dancer, actress, and spy. She helped get messages to the French military, using tricks like hiding the messages inside her dress, or writing them in invisible ink on her sheet music.

7: In 1756, Lydia Chapin Taft became the first woman to legally vote with the consent of the electorate.