125 Civil War Stories and Facts: Learn Civil War History From Factual Stories About The War’s Military Commanders, Political Leaders, Battles, Places, Weapons, And People

The factual stories in125 Civil War Stories and Factswill help you learn Civil War history. The stories are informative and entertaining. It’s a fun way to learn about the Civil War.* Does reading about Civil War history from long and dry academic-like books bog you down and cause you to lose interest?* Would you like to read interesting stories based on facts of the Civil War, stories that inform you and move along with the war’s history? Does having to read from cover to cover tire you and cause you to drag through a history book?* Would you prefer the freedom to skip around in a book and learn story-by-story about the Civil War? Would you appreciate snapshot stories that tell about the commanders, political leaders, battles, places, weapons, and people of the Civil War?Here are a few story samples from125 Civil War Stories and Facts:#59. On July 2, 1861, Confederate General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was sitting and resting under an oak tree at Falling Waters, Maryland. Union troops saw fit to strike a large limb of the oak tree with a cannonball. The tree limb fell and nearly landed on top of Stonewall. He could easily have been killed by the falling limb, but Jackson escaped unharmed. Stonewall narrowly missed being killed at Falling Waters by the tree limb, but death for Stonewall was certain at the Battle of Chancellorsville. In May 1863, he was mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville. He lost an arm and apparently was recovering, but he died on May 10, 1863, of pneumonia.#77. (Excerpt) […] A story in North Carolina’s Fayetteville Observer newspaper once told of a South Carolina man who was preparing to sell the old family farm. It was a farm that had been in his family for generations, all the way back to antebellum times. In 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops paid a visit to the farm and left their mark of destruction. The newspaper’s reporter asked the old farmer whom he was hoping might buy his land, what he wanted the future of the farm to be. Would the farmer care