{"product_id":"best-little-stories-of-the-blue-and-gray","title":"Best Little Stories of the Blue and Gray","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBest Little Stories of the Blue and Gray\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eC Brian Kelly\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781581825022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCumberland House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e2nd Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA journalistic history of America's Civil War, it records the war largely in terms of human-interest aspects. In more than 100 vignettes, the writings of soldiers, sailors, slaves, politicians, and ordinary people are featured. Illustrated.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest Little Stories from the Blue and the Gray\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalistic history of America's Civil War and the people who fought it. Drawn from the writings of soldiers, sailors, slaves, politicians, and ordinary citizens as much as from the accomplishments of military leaders, it records the war largely in terms of its human-interest aspects. In more than 100 vignettes, it gives voice to the common people -- soldiers and civilians alike -- not just military and political leaders, featuring stories about: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Confederacy's Patton brothers, whose heroics inspired their descendant, George S. Patton Jr., of World War II fame.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA general who served faithfully and honorably under Stonewall Jackson even though as a cadet he had been expelled from VMI for talking back to \u003cem\u003eProfessor\u003c\/em\u003e Jackson.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe true story behind the song, \"Dixie,\" which was written in the North and was one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite songs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Confederate veteran who erected a monument in New England to his former enemy, the soldiers of the Union army.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe onetime Union drummer who apparently was the only Civil War veteran lost when the \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e sank nearly five decades later.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Confederate veteran who wrote nearly 1,000 novels and novelettes after the Civil War and was buried at Jefferson Davis's postwar home in Mississippi.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Southern cemetery in which forty generals -- all Union -- are buried.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn obscure Confederate general who is honored by a statue in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow California won the Civil War for the Union...sort of...and how Texas gave the Confederacy a boost, even though Gov. Sam Houston did not intend to do so.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Union submarine that sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras while under tow to Charleston, South Caroline, not in battle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe final -- but unsought -- sentimental journey for Varina Howell Davis and her husband, Jefferson Davis, aboard a Mississippi River steamboat just days before his death.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Cumberland House","offers":[{"title":"Best Little Stories of the Blue and Gray | C Brian Kelly | Paperback | 9781581825022 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1760871","offer_id":49229579681944,"sku":"1760871","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/518V1JZDk8L.jpg?v=1781219204","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/best-little-stories-of-the-blue-and-gray","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}