4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Born on March 27, 1844 in Newburyport, MA, he joined the United States Army at the age of 17 during the American Civil War ... he worked on the new telegraph network that was being implemented ...