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Civil War Ghosts

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I like this book because it tells weird but true ghost stories. I also like the end of each story it gives places and addresses you can visit.Also phone numbers you can call for more information. Some of the stories are of love and hate. Some stories gave me chills.

This book is incredible. My students loved hearing the multiple tales of hauntings from the Civil War. My students actually wrote to a few places that were mentioned in the book and received impressive replies. Thumbs up!

I thought this book was wonderful, wether or not the ghost stories were true. Much of the actual history was accurate and is good for anyone who'd like to read about ghost or the civil war, as the title makes very clear. If only you will read with an open mind to the material, and not worry about the truth in the book. Personally I don't belive in ghosts and things, but wanted to enjoy the romance and adventure in the stories. I think that if you have a good imagination, and enjoy an interesting ghost story that has to do with history, then you will enjoy Civil War Ghosts.

This was a very interesting book. Not only do you get a good variety of ghost stories but there is also some interesting civil war history. This is not a very thick book and is good reading when reading time is short.

If you like to read ghost stories you should read this book.
This book is about ghosts from the Civil War. Some of the stories are scary . Probably the best story is called "The Many Ghosts of Abraham Lincoln." This book should be read because it tells how Abe Lincoln was killed. That is why I think you should read this book.

My 8th grade son decided to do a history project on haunted battlefields of the Civil War, and I purchased four books on the topic. After his project was finished, I read the books myself. I have no prejudice that there is no such thing as ghosts. But as these books don't bill themselves as fiction, I do have standards for nonfiction writing, against which I'll measure the four books:
1. Ghosts of Gettysburg, by Mark Nesbitt (the 1st of 5 by him, I believe), rated 5 stars
2. Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends, by Nancy Roberts, rated 3 1/2 stars, rounded up to 4
3. Civil War Ghosts, by Daniel Cohen, rated 4 stars, targeted at the younger reader
4. Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War, by Christopher K. Coleman, rated 4 stars

This book is published by Scholastic, which, in my experience of buying books for my two kids, does a good job on it's non-fiction books. Of course, a book about ghosts might be called fiction, too! Cohen includes a bibliography at the end, but all of the titles listed are books about ghosts written by other people. In other words, Cohen didn't look at source material (unlike Mark Nesbitt, for example, who has read the original dispatches, letters, etc.). This doesn't mean that someone didn't do the original research, just that it wasn't Daniel Cohen.

That said, however, I'm still giving this 4 stars because Cohen does a good job of presenting the known facts, and he presents the stories without purple prose and they are written in an engaging and enthusiatic manner. Just right to hold the interest of a young person. Eight full-page B&W photos are included.

The locations of the stories vary, including battlefields and the nearby houses used as field hospitals, a prison camp, and the White House.

I rate this as a very good introduction to the hauntings arising out of the longest and bloodiest war Americans have ever fought.

This book is a very good read, very interesting and hard to put down. I enjoyed reading this very much. Although it is a thin book, it is worth adding to your collection of reading material. I bought mine through Thrift Books, and was very pleased with my order.

My husband bought this thinking it would be full of tales..it was short, not very meaty...really a book for younger readers

Looks like the boy hero, Sam Davis, hanged in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a Confederate Spy on the cover.

After the Civil War fiasco, Jefferson Davis encouraged the South to "bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations," but the South will never surrender. He declared that the past is dead. His first wife was Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of U. S. President Zachary Taylor. Davis was a congressman, senator, secretary of war, and President of the Confederacy. His horse's name
was Thunder.

In 1858, Horace Greely called Jefferson Davis "unquestionably the foremost man in the South today" and a great president. He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. "His occasional unintentional arrogance came from his sense of great commanding power.

One of his generals during the war, declared the best by Robert E. Lee, was besmirked in 2005 by two college professors thusly:

This book was written in association with Texas Christian University for the American Crisis Series, Books on Civil War Era. Previously, I reviewed ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR by John C. Waugh. This one, however, is what the title says all 'myth' written by two journalism professors at the University of Tennessee. I guess they were assigned this personage, the greatest Civil War General, according to Robert E. Lee, because they work in Tennessee. Neither are from the state of Tennessee and know nothing, no facts about this great soldier of the Civil War.

They know nothing about history per se, so I am just wondering why the history department at the University in Knoxville would
not have been a better selection to write about one of our native heroes. These frauds call their subject 'white trash' because the Klan wore white sheets in his reincarnation of the group(now they wear purple, green and white outfits) used to protect everybody from the carpet baggers after the Civil War. These men are not from Tennessee, and should never have been chosen to write this book.

It is biased and slanted and exactly a 'myth' a fairy tale of the worse sort. Forrest was from a good background and family (father was a locksmith/doctor) and born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, in Bedford County. These men thought he had been born in Memphis as they dwell on something which happened which was
infamous instead of famous. Those of us at the public meeting where they talked had not heard of that specific incident, and we are native Tennesseans. His life was not a 'morality tale,' as they claim, nor was he a comic book figure. He was a real live hero, not something made up in the comics. They even equate him with Forrest Gump, how dumb can a person be? They are blasphamous in their assertions that he was less than they.

Anyone can get a PhD and still not be competent. I have three PhDs in my family, and they have no common sense. Neither do these writers. Don't believe anything you read in this book. It is all made up, that's what journalism is these days, manufactured lies. These teachers are in the journalism
department, not the history area, so they never should have taken on this endeavor.

They make Forrest out to be a dumb, silly "white trash" from Tennessee when they know better. It is just to sully his reputation as a great general. They don't know how to present facts or truth. They did not research this book adequately, so just read it as fiction.

Jefferson Davis was born into a patriotic American family at Fairview, Kentucky. He would have drawn his sword if he could have been around to read this garbage about one of his best generals and a great American in his own right. As was one of his distant ancestors, the boy Sam, whose statues are on the square at Pulaski and on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol.