Best Little Ironies, Oddities & Mysteries of the Civil War

All of these stories are written from a journalistic history approach that looks for the "feature story" aspects in the war's events, including:

• William "Mudwall" Jackson, who - as a lawyer, judge, and lieutenant governor of Virginia - would have been far better known than his cousin "Stonewall" Jackson had war not broken out.
• The man in charge of quelling John Brown's uprising at Harpers Ferry in 1859, surprisingly none other than Robert E. Lee.
• Jeff Greenwold of Anoka, Minnesota, who was the first volunteer of the first regiment to organize to fight for the Union.
• Brig. Gen. Robert Gannett, who was the first general officer of either side to be killed in battle.
• An unnamed Union soldier who broke down in tears following the battle of Williamsburg at the sight of a dead Confederate soldier, then kissed his enemy - his brother.
• John Taylor Wood, whose grandfather had been president of the United States, whose father was a 36-year veteran in the Union army, but whose aunt was married to Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
• Frank Crawford Armstrong, who served in both the Confederate and Union armies.
• Union officer Orton Williams - raised by Robert E. Lee and his wife at Arlington house after Williams had been orphaned - who later informed Mary Lee that Federal troops would be coming to occupy her home the next day.

• Country	USA
  Brand	Cumberland House
  Manufacturer	Cumberland House
  Binding	Paperback
  ReleaseDate	2000-11-01
  UnitCount	1
  EANs	9781581821161