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Strange but True Facts About the Civil War
Patrick M. Reynolds
出版
Taylor Trade Publishing
, 2007-06-28
主題
Reference / Trivia
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN
1461733774
9781461733775
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nRbyAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.