This fascinating collection explores the unusual and often bizarre persons,attitudes, and events of the Civil War. Illustrated and indexed.

The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which

Presents a series of historical anecdotes about little-known, miscellaneous events and personal experiences of the American Civil War.

A collection of more than one hundred true stories from the Civil War era that recount the exploits of key figures and chronicle important events that shaped th

Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil