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More Civil War Curiosities: Fascinating Tales, Infamous Characters, and Strange Coincidences

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I have three of Garrison's books: The Amazing Civil War, Civil War Curiosities, and More Civil War Curiosities. I would recommend each and every book to anyone! The facts that Garrison writes about are both interesting and captivating and being a high school American History teacher, I plan on using the facts that I have found no where else to captivate my students and give them a perspective on the war that they may have never found otherwise

The unusual and the bizzare are the continual trademarks of this work. The stories are lively, interesting and even thought provoking.

The work takes you outside the realm of modern textbooks to give you the inside scoop of the Civil War. A truly fascinating read!

Gives an interesting viewpoint of some of the famous, and not so famous, stories from the Civil War.

good reading--however a lot of duplication in personal references--some repeated 3 time throughout book good reading

While some of the stories about the personalities and events of the American Civil War found in this book are interesting, I found many of them tedious and repetitive. There is a section about people, including U. S. Grant, who changed their names during the course of their lives. Since many people do that in any period of human history, those facts were not in any way significant to the conduct of the war. Other facts concerned which Confederate commander was the last to surrender, commanders on both sides demanding a ransom from a town to save it from being plundered and mundane financial matters such as inflated prices.
As histories of the civil war go, this one does not relate events that satisfy the cover claim of being bizarre. Most fell into the category of events that one would expect in a war between two factions of the same country.