Curiosities of the Civil War - Webb Garrison

[[Originally posted March 20th 2011]]

I thought I was going to like this book. I thought wrong. While it was very entertaining it wasn't my kinda book. My husband & mom liked it more than me.

When I ordered this book I thought each "curiosity" would be a chapter. Instead they were shorter, probably a paragraph or 2 on average. There are 9 parts to this book to fill Civil War buffs up on interesting and quirky information.

For example did you know

On the second day Gettysburg, Union Major General Daniel E. Sickles took a direct hit from a Confederate shell. Within thirty minutes a surgeon had finished amputating his mangled leg.

Sickles loudly demanded that it be preserved in alcohol, but he soon be became tired of it and donated it to the U.S. Army Medical Museum. Tradition says he visited his leg several times during the postwar years but never remained with it morn that a few minutes.

 I recommend this book to people who are interested in learning more of the stranger, unusual, not so talked about aspects of the Civil War.



 [[Disclaimer: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program.. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed here are my own.]]