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More Civil War Curiosities contains strange but true stories from the four-year conflict that raged across a one-thousand-mile battle front with more than three million men in uniform. Anything could and often did happen. Webb Garrison recounts instances of friendly fire casualties, the unperfected art of spying, banishments and deportings, grisly tales of missing limbs, name changes for both people and ships, disguises that worked (and some that did not), and many "firsts" and "lasts." Fragging, or purposely killing a fellow soldier, was the probable cause of the death of Thomas Wilson, a tyrannical Federal general. He died in action at the battle of Baton Rouge when, according to one account, he was seized by a group of his own men who held him in front of a cannon before it was fired at the enemy. When Confederate Gen. Jubal Early marched on Frederick, Maryland, he offered not to torch the town for a payment of $200,000. It took the townspeople a day to borrow the money?and 87 years to pay it back. When Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, failed to raise a ransom of $500,000, Early's subordinate, Gen. John McCausland, burned the town to the ground. The arm of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson was amputated when he was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville. Following the operation, Jackson's corps chaplain gave the arm a respectful burial?complete with a gravestone?in his family's cemetery. When the general died a week later, the rest of him was buried in Lexington, Virginia. Hiram Ulysses Grant was mistakenly listed as Ulysses Simpson Grant by the congressman appointing him to West Point. Grant did not protest, and the name stayed with him all the way to the presidency of the United States.
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press (October 23, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558533664
ISBN-13: 978-1558533660
Product Dimensions:  6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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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
The unusual and the bizzare are the continual trademarks of this work. The stories are lively, interesting and even thought provoking.The work takes you outside the realm of modern textbooks to give you the inside scoop of the Civil War. A truly fascinating read!
Bought this for my husband who is a big History buff and has centered his interest lately around the Civil War. As soon as he saw this in his stocking on Christmas morning he was pleased. He read half the book that evening.
Gives an interesting viewpoint of some of the famous, and not so famous, stories from the Civil War.
good reading--however a lot of duplication in personal references--some repeated 3 time throughout book good reading
Got this for a teen Civil War buff and he loved it.
Great research book for my presentations
All delivered as promised thank you
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