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Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States

Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States

Cormac O'Brien
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Legendary Heroes of U.S. History—As You’ve Never Seen Them Before!
 
Secret Lives of the Civil War features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacy—complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts. You’ll discover that:
 
     •  Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit
        world.
     •  Jefferson Davis once imported camels for soldiers stationed in the American southwest.
     •  Ulysses S. Grant spent much of the Vicksburg campaign on a horse named “Kangaroo.”
     •  James Longstreet fought the Battle of Antietam wearing carpet slippers.
     •  William T. Sherman was the victim of two shipwrecks on the same day.
     •  Harriet Tubman experienced frequent and bizarre hallucinations.
     •  Stonewall Jackson was a notorious hypochondriac .
 
With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill to Rose O’Neal Greenhow , Secret Lives of the Civil War features a mix of famous faces and unsung heroes. American history was never this much fun in school!
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Quirk Books
Release
May 01, 2007
ISBN
1594741387
ISBN 13
9781594741388

Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States

Cormac O'Brien
3.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Legendary Heroes of U.S. History—As You’ve Never Seen Them Before!
 
Secret Lives of the Civil War features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacy—complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts. You’ll discover that:
 
     •  Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit
        world.
     •  Jefferson Davis once imported camels for soldiers stationed in the American southwest.
     •  Ulysses S. Grant spent much of the Vicksburg campaign on a horse named “Kangaroo.”
     •  James Longstreet fought the Battle of Antietam wearing carpet slippers.
     •  William T. Sherman was the victim of two shipwrecks on the same day.
     •  Harriet Tubman experienced frequent and bizarre hallucinations.
     •  Stonewall Jackson was a notorious hypochondriac .
 
With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill to Rose O’Neal Greenhow , Secret Lives of the Civil War features a mix of famous faces and unsung heroes. American history was never this much fun in school!
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Quirk Books
Release
May 01, 2007
ISBN
1594741387
ISBN 13
9781594741388

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