WTF fun fact After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to. recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers." - iFunny :)
Did you know? After the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, many Civil War soldiers' lives were saved by a phenomenon called 'Angel's GIow.‘ The soldiers, who lay in the mud for two rainy days, had wounds that began to glow in the dark and heal unusually fast. In 2001 , 2 teens won an international science fair by discovering the soldiers had been so cold that their bodies created the perfect conditions for growing a bioluminescent bacteria, which ultimately destroyed the bad bacteria that could' ve kiIIed th_em. - iFunny
