Originally Posted by Sands

1) How Chickens Won the Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg is widely known as the most violent battle in the Civil War, but what most people don't know is that the North's Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker may have tipped the scales in his men's favor by using an unorthodox tactic: he launched chicken carcasses at the enemy through cannons. The splatter of blood and meat so terrified the Southern troops, convincing them that their comrades were literally being ripped to shreds by a new and powerful cannon ammunition, that they began to retreat in confusion and fear.