Category : Almanacs & Trivia

Strange but True Facts About the Civil War

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Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War. Did you know...-A January 1861 plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln was thwarted with the helpf of a police chief named...John Kennedy?-The Confederacy briefly had a program developing rockets?-Two million dollars in gold bars that disappeared from a Union Army shipment may still be buried in northwestern Pennsylvania?-The Gettysburg Address was panned as 'silly, flat and dish-watery? by the Chicago Times?These are just a few of the remarkable stories chronicled in Patrick M. Reynolds' educational cartoon strips.

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