125 Civil War Stories and Facts

Learn Civil War History From Factual Stories About The War’s Military Commanders, Political Leaders, Battles, Places, Weapons, And People

De: Jonathan R. Allen

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The factual stories in 125 Civil War Stories and Facts will help you learn Civil War history. The stories are informative and entertaining. It’s a fun way to learn about the Civil War.

* Does reading about Civil War history from long and dry academic-like books bog you down and cause you to lose interest?

* Would you like to read interesting stories based on facts of the Civil War, stories that inform you and move along with the war’s history? Does having to read from cover to cover tire you and cause you to drag through a history book?

* Would you prefer the freedom to skip around in a book and learn story-by-story about the Civil War? Would you appreciate snapshot stories that tell about the commanders, political leaders, battles, places, weapons, and people of the Civil War?

Here are a few story samples from 125 Civil War Stories and Facts:

#59. On July 2, 1861, Confederate General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was sitting and resting under an oak tree at Falling Waters, Maryland. Union troops saw fit to strike a large limb of the oak tree with a cannonball. The tree limb fell and nearly landed on top of Stonewall. He could easily have been killed by the falling limb, but Jackson escaped unharmed. Stonewall narrowly missed being killed at Falling Waters by the tree limb, but death for Stonewall was certain at the Battle of Chancellorsville. In May 1863, he was mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville. He lost an arm and apparently was recovering, but he died on May 10, 1863, of pneumonia.

#77. (Excerpt) […] A story in North Carolina’s Fayetteville Observer newspaper once told of a South Carolina man who was preparing to sell the old family farm. It was a farm that had been in his family for generations, all the way back to antebellum times. In 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops paid a visit to the farm and left their mark of destruction. The newspaper’s reporter asked the old farmer whom he was hoping might buy his land, what he wanted the future of the farm to be. Would the farmer care if the farm would be lost and used for development, or would he prefer if another farmer would buy it? The old South Carolinian farmer replied, “I don’t give a damn or a care who buys it or what he does with it, as long as his last name ain’t SHERMAN!” […] (Much more information follows about Sherman’s surprisingly positive relationship with the South before the Civil War.)

#124. (Excerpt) White House security and access were surprisingly lax in the Civil War. If you wanted to meet with President Abraham Lincoln to talk about some matter, then all you had to do was go to the White House and request to see him. You would have to wait your turn. That wait might be a considerable length of time, perhaps days or even a week. If you were patient and your desire to talk with Lincoln was strong enough, then you would have the opportunity to meet with him. […] (This story continues with the telling of a man who came to visit Lincoln in the White House. He was an important man who was once a slave and he had influence on President Lincoln. Lincoln listened to him.)

Do books like Civil War Trivia and Fact Book by Webb Garrison or The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts by Burke Davis interest you? Then you will find 125 Civil War Stories and Facts follows in their tradition of providing the reader with rich and interesting information about the Civil War.

You don’t have to read 125 Civil War Stories and Facts from cover to cover. You can thumb through to random stories and begin or end reading wherever you want. Each story is meant to stand alone, although some stories will add to or build upon other related stories. Some similar story topics might be gathered near one another in a few places, or related stories might be found throughout the book. You don’t know what might pop up next!