The factual stories in 125 Civil War Stories and Facts<\/em> will help you learn Civil War history. The stories are informative and entertaining. It\u2019s a fun way to learn about the Civil War.<\/p>\n 125 Civil War Stories and Facts<\/p><\/div>\n Available as a Kindle eBook or as a paperback.<\/strong><\/p>\n #59. On July 2, 1861, Confederate General Thomas Jonathan \u201cStonewall\u201d Jackson was sitting and resting under an oak tree at Falling Waters, Maryland. Union troops saw fit to strike a large limb of the oak tree with a cannonball. The tree limb fell and nearly landed on top of Stonewall. He could easily have been killed by the falling limb, but Jackson escaped unharmed. Stonewall narrowly missed being killed at Falling Waters by the tree limb, but death for Stonewall was certain at the Battle of Chancellorsville. In May 1863, he was mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville. He lost an arm and apparently was recovering, but he died on May 10, 1863, of pneumonia.<\/p>\n #77. (Excerpt) [\u2026] A story in North Carolina\u2019s Fayetteville Observer newspaper once told of a South Carolina man who was preparing to sell the old family farm. It was a farm that had been in his family for generations, all the way back to antebellum times. In 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman\u2019s troops paid a visit to the farm and left their mark of destruction. The newspaper\u2019s reporter asked the old farmer whom he was hoping might buy his land, what he wanted the future of the farm to be. Would the farmer care if the farm would be lost and used for development, or would he prefer if another farmer would buy it? The old South Carolinian farmer replied, \u201cI don\u2019t give a damn or a care who buys it or what he does with it, as long as his last name ain\u2019t SHERMAN!\u201d [\u2026] (Much more information follows about Sherman\u2019s surprisingly positive relationship with the South before the Civil War.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #124. (Excerpt) White House security and access were surprisingly lax in the Civil War. If you wanted to meet with President Abraham Lincoln to talk about some matter, then all you had to do was go to the White House and request to see him. You would have to wait your turn. That wait might be a considerable length of time, perhaps days or even a week. If you were patient and your desire to talk with Lincoln was strong enough, then you would have the opportunity to meet with him. [\u2026] (This story continues with the telling of a man who came to visit Lincoln in the White House. He was an important man who was once a slave and he had influence on President Lincoln. Lincoln listened to him.)<\/p>\n![\"125](\"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/125-CWSF-Amazon-Image.jpg\")
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