Cormac O'Brien,Monika Suteski
Legendary Heroes of U.S. Historyâ€”As Youâ€™ve Never Seen Them Before!, Â ,Secret Lives of the Civil War ,features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacyâ€”complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts. Youâ€™ll discover that:, Â , Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Â Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â world., Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Â Jefferson Davis once imported camels for soldiers stationed in the American southwest., Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Â Ulysses S. Grant spent much of the Vicksburg campaign on a horse named â€œKangaroo.â€, Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Â James Longstreet fought the Battle of Antietam wearing carpet slippers., Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Â William T. Sherman was the victim of two shipwrecks on the same day., Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Â Harriet Tubman experienced frequent and bizarre hallucinations., Â Â Â Â Â â€¢ Â Stonewall Jackson was a notorious hypochondriac (he always sat up straight, fearing that, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â slouching would compress his vital organs)., Â , With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill (a guerilla leader whose skull later ended up in the basement of a fraternity house) to Rose Oâ€™Neal Greenhow (perhaps the Southâ€™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!
History,Military History,Civil War,Nonfiction,Biography,North American Hi...,American History,War,Military Fiction,Historical
Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States