Strange But True Facts of the Civil War

by Patrick M. Reynolds

Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War. Did you know...
-A January 1861 plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln was thwarted with the helpf of a police chief named...John Kennedy?
-The Confederacy briefly had a program developing rockets?
-Two million dollars in gold bars that disappeared from a Union Army shipment may still be buried in northwestern Pennsylvania?
-The Gettysburg Address was panned as "silly, flat and dish-watery? by the Chicago Times?
These are just a few of the remarkable stories chronicled in Patrick M. Reynolds' educational cartoon strips.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589793625
• ISBN13: 9781589793620
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.9" x 6.8"