Strange but True Facts About the Civil War
| By: | Patrick M. Reynolds |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781589793620 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781461733775 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War. Did you know... -A January 1861 plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln was thwarted with the helpf of a police chief named...John Kennedy? -The Confederacy briefly had a program developing rockets? -Two million dollars in gold bars that disappeared from a Union Army shipment may still be buried in northwestern Pennsylvania? -The Gettysburg Address was panned as "silly, flat and dish-watery? by the Chicago Times? These are just a few of the remarkable stories chronicled in Patrick M. Reynolds' educational cartoon strips.