Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences

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Автор: Webb Garrison

Название: Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences

Издательство: Rutledge Hill Press

Год: 1994

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 294

Язык: English

Размер: 26.2 MB

True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and his family." Almost four years later, McLean's Appomattox Court House home was used for Lee's surrender to Grant. There wasn't damage from cannon balls, but souvenir-hunting Union officers left McLean's parlor bare of furniture. After the Confederacy was defeated, Jefferson Davis was stripped of his citizenship. He died as a man without a country. His citizenship was restored by Congress during the administration of Georgian Jimmy Carter. Three members of the Guillet family were killed while riding the same horse, which was then given to the Ohio Ninety-eighth regiment. Three officers were killed while riding the same horse.