Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook531 pages6 hours
The Blue & Gray Almanac: The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang
By Albert Nofi
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A fascinating and entertaining anthology about the American Civil War, throwing new light on all aspects of the war, and how it affected America and Americans, then and down to the present.
Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know...
• During the final days of the war, some Richmond citizens would throw “Starvation Parties,” at which elegantly attired guests would gather at soirees where the finest silver and crystal tableware was used, though there were usually no refreshments except water.
• Union Rear-Admiral Goldsborough was nicknamed “Old Guts”, not so much for his combativeness as for his heft, weighing about 300 pounds, and was described as “. . . a huge mass of inert matter.”
• 30.6 percent of the 425 Confederate generals, but only 21.6 percent of the 583 Union generals, had been lawyers before the war.
• In 1861, J. P. Morgan made a huge profit by buying 5,000 condemned US Army carbines and selling them back to another arsenal, taking the Army to court when they tried to refuse to pay for the faulty weapons.
• Major General Loring was reputed to have so rich a vocabulary than one of the men once remarked he could "curse a cannon up hill without horses."
• Many militia units had a favorite drink, the Charleston Light Dragoons’ punch took around a week to make while the Chatham Artillery required 1 pound of green tea leaves be steeped overnight.
• There were five living former presidents when the Civil War began, and seven veterans of the war (plus one draft dodger) went on to serve as President.
Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know...
• During the final days of the war, some Richmond citizens would throw “Starvation Parties,” at which elegantly attired guests would gather at soirees where the finest silver and crystal tableware was used, though there were usually no refreshments except water.
• Union Rear-Admiral Goldsborough was nicknamed “Old Guts”, not so much for his combativeness as for his heft, weighing about 300 pounds, and was described as “. . . a huge mass of inert matter.”
• 30.6 percent of the 425 Confederate generals, but only 21.6 percent of the 583 Union generals, had been lawyers before the war.
• In 1861, J. P. Morgan made a huge profit by buying 5,000 condemned US Army carbines and selling them back to another arsenal, taking the Army to court when they tried to refuse to pay for the faulty weapons.
• Major General Loring was reputed to have so rich a vocabulary than one of the men once remarked he could "curse a cannon up hill without horses."
• Many militia units had a favorite drink, the Charleston Light Dragoons’ punch took around a week to make while the Chatham Artillery required 1 pound of green tea leaves be steeped overnight.
• There were five living former presidents when the Civil War began, and seven veterans of the war (plus one draft dodger) went on to serve as President.
Unavailable
Related to The Blue & Gray Almanac
Related ebooks
The Blue & Gray Almanac: The Civil War in Facts & Figures, Recipes & Slang Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCivil War Short Stories and Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains, 1861 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhite Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Voices of the Army of the Potomac: Personal Reminiscences of Union Veterans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShiloh, 1862 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Civil War: April 1861-April 1865 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unnecessary Wars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLincoln's Choice: The Repeating Rifle which Cut Short the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over: First-Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Win the Lost War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKick The Dead Lion: A Case Book Of The Custer Battle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life and Times of a World War I Soldier: The Julius Holthaus Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStorm Over the Land: A Profile of the Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Boer War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lincoln's Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24–April 8, 1865 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Northern Home Front during the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
United States History For You
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5U.S. History 101: Historic Events, Key People, Important Locations, and More! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White Album: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Blue & Gray Almanac
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews