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Cargando... Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the Statespor Cormac O'Brien
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If you enjoy reading about the Civil War this this is a must read. Divided into two sections, the book deals with the men and woman that fought (in one way or another) for the Union or the Confederacy. Included are tidbits and little known facts about these men and women that you don't find in most history books. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:Legendary Heroes of U.S. History--As You've Never Seen Them Before! Secret Lives of the Civil War features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacy--complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts. You'll discover that: â?¢ Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit world. â?¢ Jefferson Davis once imported camels for soldiers stationed in the American southwest. â?¢ Ulysses S. Grant spent much of the Vicksburg campaign on a horse named "Kangaroo." â?¢ James Longstreet fought the Battle of Antietam wearing carpet slippers. â?¢ William T. Sherman was the victim of two shipwrecks on the same day. â?¢ Harriet Tubman experienced frequent and bizarre hallucinations. â?¢ Stonewall Jackson was a notorious hypochondriac (he always sat up straight, fearing that slouching would compress his vital organs). With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill (a guerilla leader whose skull later ended up in the basement of a fraternity house) to Rose O'Neal Greenhow (perhaps the South's most glamorous spy), Secret Lives of the Civil War features a mix of famous faces and unsung heroes. American history was never this No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)973.70922History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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