The Amazing Civil War: A Fascinating Collection of Little-Known Facts of the Four-Year Conflict That Changed America

With three million soldiers scattered along a ten-thousand-mile front and the number of engagements estimated to be more than one thousand, the Civil War was a war in which fascinating anecdotes, colorful stories, humorous tales, and unusual coincidences were frequent.

The Amazing Civil War is a fascinating collection of little-known stories and facts of the four-year conflict that changed America:

Battle in the buff and other moments when one side caught the other side with their pants down. Unsolved mysteries of the battlefield, such as Lee's lost order in the Battle of the Wilderness, and the plan to kill Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Unusual punishments, from the painful, such as a soldier being hung by his thumbs, to the ridiculous, such as fifty soldiers forced to parade through the streets of Chattanooga wearing nightcaps. Government corruption and reckless expenditures, such as $1,000 for an ax. The soldier who deserted and enlisted 32 times, receiving bounty money each time, until he was caught. And hundreds of other anecdotes, factoids, and strange events!

Webb Garrison, formerly associate dean of Emory University and president of McKendree College, wrote more than 55 books, including Civil War Curiosities and Civil War Trivia and Fact Book. Before his death in 2000, Garrison lived in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.