Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the StatesQuirk Books, 2007 - 319 Seiten Legendary Heroes of U.S. History--As You've Never Seen Them Before! Secret Lives of the Civil War features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacy--complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts. You'll discover that: - Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill (a guerilla leader whose skull later ended up in the basement of a fraternity house) to Rose O'Neal Greenhow (perhaps the South'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! |
Inhalt
Preface | 6 |
Abraham Lincoln President of the United States | 22 |
Henry Wager Halleck Union General | 44 |
Ulysses S Grant Union General | 64 |
William Tecumseh Sherman Union General | 79 |
Joseph Hooker Union General | 101 |
Daniel Edgar Sickles Union General | 123 |
Sarah Emma Edmonds Union Soldier Spy and Nurse | 147 |
Varina Howell Davis Confederate First Lady | 178 |
James Longstreet Confederate General | 200 |
Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson Confederate Officer | 225 |
Braxton Bragg Confederate General | 247 |
Jubal Anderson Early Confederate Officer | 270 |
Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate General | 283 |
Rose ONeale Greenhow Confederate Spy | 302 |
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