Legendary Heroes of U.S. History—As You’ve Never Seen Them Before!
Secret Lives of the Civil War features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacy—complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts. You’ll discover that:
• Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit
world.
• Jefferson Davis once imported camels for soldiers stationed in the American southwest.
• Ulysses S. Grant spent much of the Vicksburg campaign on a horse named “Kangaroo.”
• James Longstreet fought the Battle of Antietam wearing carpet slippers.
• William T. Sherman was the victim of two shipwrecks on the same day.
• Harriet Tubman experienced frequent and bizarre hallucinations.
• Stonewall Jackson was a notorious hypochondriac (he always sat up straight, fearing that
slouching would compress his vital organs).
With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill (a guerilla leader whose skull later ended up in the basement of a fraternity house) to Rose O’Neal Greenhow (perhaps the South’s most glamorous spy),Secret Lives of the Civil War features a mix of famous faces and unsung heroes. American history was never this much fun in school!
Chapter 1. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
Chapter 2. Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady
Chapter 3. Henry Wager Halleck, Union General
Chapter 4. George Brinton McClellan, Union General
Chapter 5. Ulysses S. Grant, Union General
Chapter 6. William Tecumseh Sherman, Union General
Chapter 7. Ambrose Everett Burnside, Union General
Chapter 8. Joseph Hooker, Union General
Chapter 9. Philip Henry Sheridan, Union General
Chapter 10. Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union General
Chapter 11. Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist Leader
Chapter 12. Sarah Emma Edmonds, Union Soldier, Spy, and Nurse
Chapter 13. Harriet Tubman, Union Nurse, Spy, and Guerrilla
Chapter 14. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
Chapter 15. Varina Howell Davis, Confederate First Lady
Chapter 16. Robert E. Lee, Confederate General
Chapter 17. James Longstreet, Confederate General
Chapter 18. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, Confederate Officer
Chapter 19. Richard Stoddert Ewell, Confederate General
Chapter 20. Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate General
Chapter 21. Braxton Bragg, Confederate General
Chapter 22. James Ewell Brown Stuart, Confederate General
Chapter 23. Jubal Anderson Early, Confederate Officer
Chapter 24. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General
Chapter 25. William Clarke Quantrill, Confederate Guerrilla Leader
Chapter 26. Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Confederate Spy