| Author | Garrison, Webb B.
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| Title | Civil War curiosities : strange stories, oddities, events, and coincidences / Webb Garrison.
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| Published | Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, c1994.
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| Description | 281 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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| ISBN | 1-55853-315-X : $9.95 |
| ISBN | 978-1-55853-315-8 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: 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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| Subjects | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Miscellanea.
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| LC Card Number | 94-32169 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 468.9 G242
mq235873: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 142256] |
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