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

ISBN: 1594741387

ISBN13: 9781594741388

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

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 (he always sat up straight, fearing that slouching would compress his vital organs). With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill (a guerilla leader whose skull later ended up in the basement of a fraternity house) to Rose O'Neal Greenhow (perhaps the South's most glamorous spy), Secret Lives of the Civil War features a mix of famous faces and unsung heroes. American history was never this much fun in school This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 4 stars
Civil War Celebs...Warts and All!

Over the past few years, a sub-category of history books has emerged with the goal of presenting a warts-and-all retelling of the historical record. This book, for instance, wants to unveil "what your teachers never told you about the War between the States." The resulting volume is a broad, interesting and informational introduction to some famous Civil War movers and shakers. The personalities covered in O'Brien's 26 chapters...

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Rated 5 stars
The result of meticulous and painstaking research

Nicely enhanced with occasional illustrations by Monika Suteski, "Secret Lives Of The Civil War": What Your Teachers Never Told You About The War Between The States" by Cormac O'Brien is an informed and informative compendium of odd facts, unsung heroes, obscure vignettes, and bizarre anecdotes that are a part of the American Civil War that are not presented in traditional classroom lectures, textbooks, or histories. For example,...

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