A Treasury Of Civil War Stories

Stories of the Civil War.

Presents a collection of stories relating to the Civil War and the Reconstruction years.

Stories of bravery, humor, and faith reflect the emotions and attitudes of freedmen, women, deserters, patriots, and resisters towards the war, as well as their opinions of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and "Stonewall" Jackson.

Webb Garrison presents the Civil War in a collection of stories that capture what the war was like for the people who lived through it. Arranged chronologically, the stories begin with the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and events leading up to the war. They trace the action through five years and conclude with Reconstruction and the presidential election of 1876. Included are stories of the slave Dred Scott, Red Cross founder Clara Barton, suspected spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow, assistant army surgeon Mary Walker, and President Andrew Johnson.

In this book, A TREASURY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SHORT STORIES, author Jeanne W. Knoop recounts her own personal version of an American Civil War Living History Site with narrative paintings encompassing all participating groups of men, women, and children during the war years. Soldiers of both North and South, privates to generals, nurses, civilians caught in the maelstrom of the violently moving whirlpool with little way out. Together with chaplains and surgeons who tried to ease both the souls and physical well being of the men under their care. Teamsters, who traveled by wagons daily on the dirt roads delivering the arts of war along with necessary medicines from ships at the landing to the camps of the hundreds of thousands of troops. And yes . . . the travails of President Abraham Lincoln. Names known and unknown, all did his or her part in the common struggle to prevail towards victory while living during the worst of times in our country since its founding less than one hundred years before. We can all learn from their sacrifices and deaths, what we almost lost. Try never to forget what they did as men and women for us, our children, and grandchildren during those days when our country stood at the crossroads awaiting direction towards the future.

A collection of fifty-two true stories recounting unusual events of the Civil War era.