Civil War curiosities : strange stories, oddities, events, and coincidences / Webb Garrison.
Record details
- ISBN: 155853315X
- ISBN: 9780760779705
- Physical Description: 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, [1994]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Lincoln and Davis started out less than one hundred miles apart -- Famous--or soon to be -- Never say die -- Many wives did more than knit socks -- Clergymen "fought like hell" -- The role of hostages in the struggle for supremacy -- Horses kept the war alive -- Civil War critters -- In the heat of battle -- Black soldiers fell short of equality -- Sights and sounds of combat -- "The war is to be illuminated by burning cities and villages" -- Outmoded weapons made "sitting ducks" of many users -- Strange new weapons -- Officers were of many varieties, but only one color -- Ships, seas, and rivers -- "Rally round the flag, boys!" -- Analysis, prediction, and wishful thinking -- Providence, fate, or chance? -- Time doesn't always fly -- Of life and death -- No one called Lincoln handsome -- From the sublime to the ridiculous -- War makers as appraised by their contemporaries -- Atrocity, war fever, or journalistic hype? -- "Silent battles" defy explanation -- Abolition of slavery not the Union goal in 1861.
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- Subject:
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Miscellanea.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
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- 36 of 36 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 973.7 GAR (Text) | 36015000691416 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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