The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts
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Genres: History, Reference, Humor & Entertainment
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: History, Reference, Humor & Entertainment
Book Type: Hardcover
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Some Strange & Fascinating Facts:
.A Confederate cornet player played so well that both sides would temporarily cease firing to hear his music.
.Capt. S.Isadore Guillet, a young Confederate officer, was fatally shot on the same horse on which three of his brothers had been previously killed.
.Slaves in Virginia could be hired for $30. a month in 1863-yet the pay of an Army private was $11. per month.
.The Town of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands seventy-six times during the war, as the armies surged to and fro in the Northern Shenandoah Valley.
.Brevet Major General Galusha Pennypacker, USA, was seventeen at the outbreak of the war, the youngest of the war's general officers.
.Converted from an old boiler, the Confederate H.L. Huxley became the first submarine to sink a ship.
.A Confederate cornet player played so well that both sides would temporarily cease firing to hear his music.
.Capt. S.Isadore Guillet, a young Confederate officer, was fatally shot on the same horse on which three of his brothers had been previously killed.
.Slaves in Virginia could be hired for $30. a month in 1863-yet the pay of an Army private was $11. per month.
.The Town of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands seventy-six times during the war, as the armies surged to and fro in the Northern Shenandoah Valley.
.Brevet Major General Galusha Pennypacker, USA, was seventeen at the outbreak of the war, the youngest of the war's general officers.
.Converted from an old boiler, the Confederate H.L. Huxley became the first submarine to sink a ship.
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