Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences

by Webb Garrison

Book Overview

True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155853315X
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Civil War Curiosities by Webb Garrison

Civil War Curiosities uncovers those unusual persons, attitudes, and events that take you beyond a textbook understanding of the Civil War. A collection of fascinating anecdotes and colorful stories, this book covers a wide variety of subjects, including "newfangled' weapons that changed the nature of war, the press' outrageous inaccuracy in covering the conflict, the phenomenon of `silent battles, ` and various disguises, atrocities, and mix-ups. Just one of the accounts which I loved told of when Sam and Keith Blalock joined the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, they claimed to be old friends who were distantly related. It was months before anyone discovered "Sam's" real name was Melinda. When Keith signed up to fight the Yankees, his wife put on a man's attire and went with him to war. I found this book to be very interesting reading.

Curiosity Abounds!

This work was fascinating to read and was neither over dramatic or under written. The stories were lively and interesting and the additon of old photos and draqwings helped fill out the book.This book won't bog you down in heavy reading, but it will liven your interest in the odd coincidences of the Civil War!

Good "lite" read for Civil War buffs

This book made for interesting reading, and was just scholarly enough to convince, without being loaded with footnotes and references. I recommend it.

Interesting and Captivating

I have three of Garrison's books: The Amazing Civil War, Civil War Curiosities, and More Civil War Curiosities. I would recommend each and every book to anyone! The facts that Garrison writes about are both interesting and captivating and being a high school American History teacher, I plan on using the facts that I have found no where else to captivate my students and give them a perspective on the war that they may have never found otherwise

It was very good!!!!!!

The Book told about tons of facts I never knew about and told more details about things I already Knew!!!!!!!!!