Treasury of Civil War Tales : Unusual, Interesting Stories of the Turbulent Era When Americans Waged War on Americans

by Garrison, Webb B.

• ISBN13: 9781558537163
• ISBN10: 1558537163
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-10-27
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

In A Treasury of Civil War Tales, you'll discover things #xD; like: What Union general was showered with 10,000 gift cigars following the #xD; unconditional surrender of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, how a Boston banking #xD; heiress wrote the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" following a tour #xD; of war-torn Washington, and what former Ohio congressman was deported from #xD; the United States to the Confederacy for advocating peace and reconciliation #xD; with the South. #xD;Garrison presents the Civil War with a human face in a collection of stories that capture what the war was like for the people who lived through it. There are fifty-two chronologically arranged stories about Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dred Scott's legal battle with slavery, and much more. #xD; Read this timeless documentary. It'll open your eyes to the #xD; mysteries beneath the Civil War.