eBook Civil War Blunders: Amusing Incidents From the War download
by Clint Johnson

Author: Clint Johnson
Publisher: Blair (January 1, 1997)
Language: English
Pages: 328
ePub: 1745 kb
Fb2: 1256 kb
Rating: 4.5
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Category: History
Subcategory: Americas
From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Civil War Blunders traces the war according to its amusing, often deadly miscues. This is an excellent book with 3 and 4 page stories of Civil War Blunders. Read a chapter here or later.
From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Civil War Blunders traces the war according to its amusing, often deadly miscues. Lurking behind every significant action, as readers will discover, was someone with a red face. I lent this book to a neighbor who had Cancer of the brain, and was embarrassed to ask his wife for the book after he passed away this Spring. I had a sigh of relief when I found it for. It was in mint condition, and I would have bought more for gifts if I had known that. He received his journalism degree from the University of Florida, and now lives in North Carolina. Clint Johnson is a native of Fish Branch, Florida, who has written eight books about the Civil War, as well as biographies and newspaper and magazine articles.
This book is dedicated to all my ancestors who fought in the War, whose varied experiences continue to drive my interest.
Civil War Blunders: Amusing Incidents From the War. Clint Johnson. This book is dedicated to all my ancestors who fought in the War, whose varied experiences continue to drive my interest. There was the Florida sergeant who lost an arm at Fredericksburg, the Georgia lieutenant who spent two years in a prison camp at Johnson’s Island, Ohio, the Georgia militia general who tried to stop Sherman at Griswoldville, the Alabama captain who fell mortally wounded at Chickamauga, and the Georgia cavalryman whose pension application reads: addle-brained by the war.
What should have been a simple affair turned into three week odyssey with the original destination being further up north in Louisville, saw the hapless ship denied port in one city after another only to return to it's original port, after Secretary of War Stanton's intervention and the ladies taking up their profession again .
Clint Johnson (born in Fish Branch, Florida) is an American author of nonfiction, primarily about the American Civil War. He is a graduate of the University of Florida. Fascinated with the American Civil War since childhood, Johnson has written eight books on the subject. He was also coauthor of They Call Me Big House, ISBN 0-89587-303-6, the autobiography of the late Clarence Gaines, one of America's best collegiate basketball coaches
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The American Civil War erupted between the slave states of the south and the states of the Union. The southern states also demanded more rights from the federal government. There were also differing opinions on whether new states that joined the Union should allow slavery or not. The United States in 1861 - Dark blue northern states without slavery, light blue northern states that allowed slavery, red Confederate (Slaves) States of the South. The course of the Civil War. After the Republican Abraham Lincoln became president the first states started to secede from the Union. In Lincoln they saw a fierce opponent who was against slavery.
Other books he has written are Civil War Blunders: Amusing Incidents From the War, Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Other books he has written are Civil War Blunders: Amusing Incidents From the War, Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Bull’s-Eyes and Misfires He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism and has written newspaper, magazine, and trade publication articles.
There was little funny about a war in which 620,000 humans died. But it was finding humor amid devastation that kept Civil War soldiers marching toward the enemy. Union or Confederate, those in command proved adept at making mistakes. Many leaders were drunkards, couldn't speak English, didn't know a cannon's breech from its muzzle. Among the galleries of heroes were: Colonel Edward Baker, who told his Federals to follow the plume of his hat if they wanted to find war―and sent them over a cliff in a panicked retreat; General Felix Zollicoffer, who wore a white raincoat so opposing Federals could see him―but not his eyeglasses so he could see them; Thomas Selfridge of the Union navy, who "found two torpedoes and removed them by placing his vessel over them"; Colonel Alfred Rhett, a captured Southern blue blood whose fancy boots proved too small for every Union officer who coveted them; rum-drinking James Ledlie and dance-instructing Edward Ferrero, generals who kept each other company in a Union bombproof while their men faced slaughter. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Civil War Blunders traces the war according to its amusing, often deadly miscues. Lurking behind every significant action, as readers will discover, was someone with a red face.
Clint Johnson is a native of Fish Branch, Florida, who has written eight books about the Civil War, as well as biographies and newspaper and magazine articles. He received his journalism degree from the University of Florida, and now lives in North Carolina.