Synopses & Reviews
Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant bought a slave just three years before the Civil War began? Or that an enterprising machine-gun salesman sold Abraham Lincoln the first "coffee-mill guns" for use by the Federal army? Or that the first American submarine attack came from the Confederate sub Hunley in 1864? These are just a few of the fascinating stories and revealing anecdotes that emerge from this intriguing and entertaining book -- a sure winner for Civil War buffs on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
Synopsis
Wonderfully entertaining look at some intriguing oddities, unusual incidents, and colorful personalities connected with the Civil War. Includes 25 names the war was known by, personal quirks of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and more,