Author: GARRISON, WEBB
Title: Civil War Curiosities Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences
Description: Thomas Nelson, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 155853315X. Looks almost new. clean book and contents. rue 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." "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. Lieutenant Milliner, the senior officer left on the field, then jumped on the jinxed horse. He escaped death, but suffered all his life from an arm shatterred by a minie ball while he was in the saddle."; B&W Photographs; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 288 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
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Title: Civil War Curiosities Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences
Description: Thomas Nelson, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 155853315X. Looks almost new. clean book and contents. rue 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." "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. Lieutenant Milliner, the senior officer left on the field, then jumped on the jinxed horse. He escaped death, but suffered all his life from an arm shatterred by a minie ball while he was in the saddle."; B&W Photographs; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 288 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
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Price: US$ 8.97 Seller: A Book Legacy
- Book number: 63200
- Book number: 63200
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