Synopses & Reviews
This fascinating book will make the Civil War come alive with thoughts and feelings of real people. The Midwest Book Review
The Civil WAR You Never Knew...
Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you haven't heard before. In Best Little Stories from the Civil War, soldiers describe their first experiences in battle, women observe the advances and retreats of armies, spies recount their methods, and leaders reveal the reasoning behind many of their public actions. Fascinating characters come to life, including:
Former U.S. Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia, who warned the Confederate cabinet not to fall for Lincoln's trap by firing on reinforcements, thereby allowing Lincoln to claim the South had fired the first shots of the war at Fort Sumter.
Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, who disbanded the 13th Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, scattered its men, gave its guns to other units, and ordered its officers home, accusing all of cowardly performance in battle.
Thomas N. Conrad, a Confederate spy operating in Washington, who warned Richmond of both the looming Federal Peninsula campaign in the spring of 1863 and the attack at Fredericksburg later that year.
Private Franklin Thomson of Michigan, born as Sarah Emma Edmonds, who fought in uniform for the Union during the war and later was the only female member of the postwar Union Grand Army of the Republic.
Synopsis
This book delivers a fresh, personal, eyewitness account of America's most divisive war from the men and women who experienced it.
Amidst the many Civil War books about military strategy, Lincoln, the great generals, and infamous battles, lies a wealth of undiscovered personal stories from the men and women who actually lived during what is arguably America's most fascinating war. Prize-winning journalist C. Brian Kelly has collected the most riveting letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, and autobiographies, weaving in pertinent historical background to create a factually compelling human interest lens of the Civil War.
Readers will discover, for example, that Ulysses S. Grant wrote as he approached his first battle, of his heart... getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. It seems the man who eventually defeated the Confederacy was as human as the rest of us.
Synopsis
"This fascinating book will make the Civil War come alive with thoughts and feelings of real people."
The Civil WAR You Never Knew...
Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you haven't heard before. In Best Little Stories from the Civil War, soldiers describe their first experiences in battle, women observe the advances and retreats of armies, spies recount their methods, and leaders reveal the reasoning behind many of their public actions. Fascinating characters come to life, including:
Former U.S. Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia, who warned the Confederate cabinet not to fall for Lincoln's trap by firing on reinforcements, thereby allowing Lincoln to claim the South had fired the first shots of the war at Fort Sumter.
Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, who disbanded the 13th Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, scattered its men, gave its guns to other units, and ordered its officers home, accusing all of cowardly performance in battle.
Thomas N. Conrad, a Confederate spy operating in Washington, who warned Richmond of both the looming Federal Peninsula campaign in the spring of 1863 and the attack at Fredericksburg later that year.
Private Franklin Thomson of Michigan, born as Sarah Emma Edmonds, who fought in uniform for the Union during the war and later was the only female member of the postwar Union Grand Army of the Republic.
Synopsis
Prize-winning journalist C. Brian Kelly has collected the most riveting letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, and autobiographies, weaving in pertinent historical background to create a factually compelling human interest lens of the Civil War.
Synopsis
The Civil WAR You Never Knew...
Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you haven't heard before.