More Civil War Curiosities: Fascinating Tales, Infamous Characters, and Strange Coincidences
By Webb Garrison.
Description
More Civil War Curiosities contains strange but true stories from the four-year conflict that raged across a one-thousand-mile battle front with more than three million men in uniform. Anything could and often did happen. Webb Garrison recounts instances of friendly fire casualties, the unperfected art of spying, banishments and deportings, grisly tales of missing limbs, name changes for both people and ships, disguises that worked (and some that did not), and many "firsts" and "lasts." Fragging, or purposely killing a fellow soldier, was the probable cause of the death ...
ISBN(s)
1558533664, 9781558533660
