Best Little Stories from the Civil War

This consists of very short factual accounts from the Civil War. There are a whole lot of really fascinating things included in this book. Some of them include:

Major insights into poverty of young Lincoln and Lee.

As early as 1832 North Carolina was talking about secession.

There are numerous accounts of slaves being beaten, shot, and killed, along with information about Frederick Douglas. There's a text reproduction of an ad for a slave sale, 1859, with a strong black male going for $1600. (And that's in the dollars of that day; I imagine it would be a very considerable amount in today's dollars.)

There's information on Jefferson Davis, and information on his wife.

There's a section about Fort Sumter, and a section on the formation of the Confederate government, and how it was very similar to the Union govt, except for the issue of slavery.

There's a lot of stuff about the social life in Washington, D.C. , and in the South.

Lincoln wanted to make sure that the South fired the first shot of the war

There's also a good bit of statistical information, such as there were around 10,455 battles of varying size during the war; there were about 4,000,000 slaves in the South; total Union Army deaths from all causes were 360,222; Confederate deaths were 258,000.

In addition to all of this, there is a chronology of the war, a bibliography, and an index.

This is a very fascinating book and includes a lot of information not found in other books on the Civil War.



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