There are more than 50,000 texts on the Civil War, plus countless articles and dissertations. The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke. Did you know:<br>? For every ship constructed in a Southern port, the North made ten.<br>? Indiana had more than two thousand miles of railroad track while Arkansas had thirty-eight.<br>? By 1862, there were more rifled muskets in North America than there were Native Americans.<br>? More than fifty-seven thousand soldiers died in prison during the war, just shy of all American soldiers lost from all causes in Vietnam.<br>