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050 00 $aE468.9$b.G37 1994
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100 1 $aGarrison, Webb B.
245 10 $aCivil War curiosities :$bstrange stories, oddities, events, and coincidences /$cWebb Garrison.
260 $aNashville, Tenn. :$bRutledge Hill Press,$c©1994.
300 $a281 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index.
505 0 $aLincoln 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.
520 $aA collection of anecdotes and stories about unusual people, attitudes, and events that occurred during the Civil War.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aGarrison, Webb B.$tCivil War curiosities.$dNashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, ©1994$w(OCoLC)606066872
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