Sidelights and Lighter Sides of the War Between the States : A Feast of History Cooked up in Small Bites!

by Green, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9781572493940
• ISBN10: 1572493941
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Burd Street Press

Summary

Through a collection of personal anecdotes and tales of the humor, irony, accidental encounters, and minor events with major consequences, Sidelights and Lighter Sides of the War Between the States: A Feast of History Cooked Up in Small Bites! offers an entertaining, enlightening, and entirely new look at the soldiers, civilians, and leaders during the War Between the States. Many of the generals in lighter moments offer an insight into their personalities through remarks that are captured here.Whimsical tidbits and offbeat stories include: ?A sergeant from the Third South Carolina Infantry is executed for the crime of asking the Federal government to pay a just debt after complaining that his unit had not been paid on payday.?A water pitcher that touched the lips of Stonewall Jackson becomes a Richmond family heirloom.?A Texan soldier writes home of the beautifully built barns in Gettysburg. ?The story is told of Nathan Bedford Forrest?s whirlwind courtship and marriage. ??Headache Springs,? a Texas laboratory that made medicines and whiskey for the Confederate government, becomes known for its healing mineral waters.?An old Gettysburg spinster gets an eyeful of skinny-dipping Confederates.?An escape from prison by means of a coffin.?A soldier removes his new shirt and puts on a tattered one so the Yankees will not shoot his new shirt.