"Never was a better title chosen for a book than What TheyDidn't Teach You About the Civil War. Mike Wright has mined some remarkablenuggets from a subject that has been written about more than any other event in AmericanHistory. All Civil War buffs will want this book on their shelves, but the reader whoshuns history because it is dull will find that Mike Wright has brought to life a subjectmade tedious by previous writers". Professor G. William Whitehurst, Old DominionUniversity
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What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War looks at the ordinary people who fought the war and the people they left behind. It is about Belle Starr and Johnny Clem, one the South's top female spy, the other a nine-year-old drummer boy who went on to serve 46 years in the U.S. Army. It is about the first shot fired at Fort Sumter (by a civilian who later committed suicide) and the final lowering of the Confederate flag (by a ship's captain in Liverpool, England). It is about death on the battlefields and in prison cells, about women fighting to be recognized for their accomplishments, and how people on both sides managed to survive the deadliest war this nation has seen. These are the emotions, passions, and stories that go far beyond History 101.
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