Bull's-Eyes and Misfires : 50 Obscure People Whose Efforts Shaped the American Civil War

by Johnson, Clint

• ISBN13: 9781558539617
• ISBN10: 1558539611
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-10-09
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

You don't have to know much about the Civil War to be familiar with Robert E.#xD;Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, or William Tecumseh Sherman. Bull's-Eyes and Misfires, however, tells the fascinating stories of fifty largely#xD;unknown people who dramatically changed the course of the Civil War by their#xD;heroic efforts or bungling mistakes. Here are the stories of: #xD;Col. George Rains who used his skill as a businessman to build a#xD;gunpowder factory in Augusta, Georgia that was impressive in its efficiency even by modern standards and manufactured nearly three million pounds of powder. The#xD;Confederacy lacked many things, but gunpowder was not one of them. #xD;Confederate Maj. John Barry ordered the volley that wounded (and eventually killed) Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville. One can only speculate#xD;how the outcome of the War might have been different had Barry not accidentally shot his own general. #xD;Julia Grant, the wife of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, kept her husband sober#xD;and focused by just showing up and living near him before and after nearly every major battle. When she was not around, he drank out of loneliness. When she was#xD;around, his Army won battles. #xD;Gen. James Wolfe Ripley hated waste so much that he refused to buy#xD;modern repeating weapons for the Union Army. He believed soldiers would fire#xD;without taking aim. His decision not to distribute superior weapons for at least#xD;a year delayed the end of the war. #xD;A

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
UNION	1	(134)
Maj. William F. Barry (1818--1879)	3	(5)
Gen. Don Carlos Buell (1818--1898)	8	(5)
Anna Ella Carroll (1815--1894)	13	(5)
Sec. of Treasury Salmon P. Chase (1808--1873)	18	(5)
Asst. Naval Sec. Gustavus Fox (1821--1883)	23	(5)
Gen. William Buel Franklin (1823--1903)	28	(5)
Gen. Quincy Adams Gillmore (1818--1883)	33	(5)
Julia Dent Grant (1826--1902)	38	(5)
Gen. Axexander Hays (1819--1864)	43	(5)
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823--1911)	48	(5)
Gen. Henry Hunt (1819--1889)	53	(6)
Gen. Rufus Ingalls (1818--1893)	59	(5)
Naval Engineer Benjamin Isherwood (1822--1915)	64	(6)
Elizabeth Keckley (1820--1907)	70	(5)
Maj. Jonathan Letterman (1824--1872)	75	(5)
Rear Adm. Hiram Paulding (1797--1878)	80	(5)
Gen. Fitz John Porter (1822--1901)	85	(6)
Gen. James Wolfe Ripley (1794--1870)	91	(6)
Gen. Truman B. Seymour (1824--1891)	97	(5)
Robert Smalls (1839--1915)	102	(6)
Gen. William F. Smith (1824--1903)	108	(6)
Elizabeth Van Lew (1818--1900)	114	(5)
Gen. Lew Wallace (1827--1905)	119	(6)
Gen. Thomas J. Wood (1823--1906)	125	(5)
Gen. John Ellis Wool (1784--1869)	130	(5)
CONFEDERATES	135	(124)
Gen. Edward Porter Alexander (1835--1910)	137	(6)
Gen. Joseph Reid Anderson (1813--1892)	143	(5)
Gen. Turner Ashby (1828--1862)	148	(5)
Maj. John Decatur Barry (1839--1867)	153	(4)
Capt. James Keith Boswell (1838--1863)	157	(5)
Comdr. John Mercer Brooke (1826--1906)	162	(5)
First Lady Varina Howell Davis (1826--1906)	167	(5)
Gen. Nathan ``Shanks'' Evans (1824--1868)	172	(4)
Gen. John Buchanan Floyd (1806--1863)	176	(5)
Gen. Josiah Gorgas (1818--1883)	181	(6)
Gen. William J. Hardee (1815--1873)	187	(5)
Gen. Henry Heth (1825--1899)	192	(5)
Maj. Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828--1899)	197	(4)
Gev. John Letcher (1813--1884)	201	(5)
Gen. John Bankhead Magruder (1807--1871)	206	(5)
Sec. of the Navy Stephen Mallory (1813--1873)	211	(5)
Gen. James Green Martin (1819--1878)	216	(4)
Marion Myers (1838--1893)	220	(5)
Gen. William Nelson Pendleton (1809--1883)	225	(4)
Chief Constructor John Porter (1813--1893)	229	(5)
Gen. Gabriel Rains (1803--1881)	234	(6)
Col. George Rains (1817--1898)	240	(5)
Gen. William Booth Taliaferro (1822--1898)	245	(5)
Capt. Sally Tompkins (1833--1916)	250	(4)
Gen. Henry Wise (1806--1976)	254	(5)
Bibliography	259	(8)
Index	267