Strange but True Facts About the Civil War
Book Details
Author(s)Patrick M. Reynolds
PublisherTaylor Trade Publishing
ISBN / ASIN1589793625
ISBN-139781589793620
AvailabilityUsually ships in 2 to 4 weeks
Sales Rank2,620,600
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
-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.
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