"Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences" by Webb Garrison, published by Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, First Edition, First Printing with copyright 1994 by the author, no other printing statement, no digit line. This fascinating collection explores the unusual and often bizarre persons, attitudes, and events of the Civil War. Illustrated and indexed.

Original dust jacket [some wear, damage on the backside: see photo]; black hard boards with gold lettering on spine; 6" x 9.1/4"; 282 pages including Index and 'About the Author' page; very good condition.

"Most likely this little curiosity shop of Civil War arcania would be discovered by readers who are well traveled down the main arteries of the conflict's documentation and now wish to travel a curiosity road less taken." [from a review]

In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and his family." Almost four years later, McLean's Appomattox Court House home was used for Lee's surrender to Grant. There wasn't damage from cannon balls, but souvenir-hunting Union officers left McLean's parlor bare of furniture.

After the Confederacy was defeated, Jefferson Davis was stripped of his citizenship. He died as a man without a country. His citizenship was restored by Congress during the administration of Georgian Jimmy Carter.

Three members of the Guillet family were killed while riding the same horse, which was then given to the Ohio Ninety-eighth regiment. Three officers were killed while riding the same horse. Lieutenant Milliner, the senior officer left on the field, then jumped on the jinxed horse. He escaped death, but suffered all his life from an arm shattered by a bullet while he was in the saddle.

Civil War Curiosities uncovers those unusual persons, attitudes, and events that take you beyond a textbook understanding of the Civil War. A collection of fascinating anecdotes and colorful stories, this book covers a wide variety of subjects, including "newfangled" weapons that changed the nature of war, the press' outrageous inaccuracy in covering the conflict, the phenomenon of "silent battles, " and various disguises, atrocities, and mix-ups.

Webb Garrison (1919-2020), was an American historian, associate dean of Emory University and president of McKendree College, wrote more than 55 books, including Civil War Curiosities and Civil War Trivia and Fact Book.

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