Friendly Fire in the Civil War: More Than 100 True Stories of Comrade Killing Comrade [Paperback]

Webb Garrison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1999

Through stories of defective ammunition, accidental shooting, inexperienced troops, and deliberate firings, this book is the first to identify when Yankee killed Yankee and Confederate killed Confederate. These tragic accounts strip away the romanticism of the Civil War.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558537368
• ISBN-13: 978-1558537361
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,801,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Friendly fire in the civil war, January 23, 2004

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K Scheffler (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friendly Fire in the Civil War: More Than 100 True Stories of Comrade Killing Comrade (Hardcover)

In this book Webb Garrison has compiled a number of incidents in which soldiers fired upon men from their own side, be it in a large battle, a skirmish, or an act upon a lone individual. Although he has consulted numerous works and records, it is most likely that due to fog-of-war or willful supression that the incidents about which he writes are but a fraction of those that occurred.

Friendly Fire in the Civil War is an interesting book, and not without its merits. But overall I find that there is just something about Garrison's writing that makes his books too simplistic, and therefore difficult to read.

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2.0 out of 5 stars this book doesn't hold the readers attention, December 11, 2003

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M. A. Miller (Rome, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friendly Fire in the Civil War: More Than 100 True Stories of Comrade Killing Comrade (Paperback)

this book is short only 200 pages and it is a very little talked about subject but though informative it just doesn't hold my attention and I really don't recomend it