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Bull's-eyes and misfires : 50 people whose obscure efforts shaped the American Civil War
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Bull's-eyes and misfires : 50 people whose obscure efforts shaped the American Civil War
-- 50 people whose obscure efforts shaped the American Civil War
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You don't have to know much about the Civil War to be familiar with Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, or William Tecumseh Sherman. Bull's-Eyes and Misfires, however, tells the fascinating stories of fifty largely unknown people who dramatically changed the course of the Civil War by their heroic efforts or bungling mistakes. Here are the stories of: Col. George Rains who used his skill as a businessman to build a gunpowder factory in Augusta, Georgia that was impressive in its efficiency even by modern standards and manufactured nearly three million pounds of powder. The Confederacy lacked many things, but gunpowder was not one of them. Confederate Maj. John Barry ordered the volley that wounded (and eventually killed) Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville.
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Title
Bull's-eyes and misfires : 50 people whose obscure efforts shaped the American Civil War -- 50 people whose obscure efforts shaped the American Civil War
Authors
Johnson, Clint, 1953-
Subjects
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Anecdotes.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography--Anecdotes.
United States--History--19th century.
Anecdotes.
Biography--Anecdotes.
History.
Language
English
Published
New York [NY] : Barnes & Noble, 2006.
Publication Desc
xi, 273 pages : illustrations ;
ISBN
0760786690

(hbk.)

Dimensions
24 cm