Legendary Heroes of U.S. History—As You've Never Seen Them Before!<br>  <br> <i>Secret Lives of the Civil War </i>features irreverent and uncensored profiles of men and women from the Union and the Confederacy—complete with hundreds of little-known and downright bizarre facts. You'll discover that:<br>  <br>      •  Mary Todd Lincoln claimed to receive valuable military strategies from ghosts in the spirit<br>         world.<br>      •  Jefferson Davis once imported camels for soldiers stationed in the American southwest.<br>      •  Ulysses S. Grant spent much of the Vicksburg campaign on a horse named “Kangaroo.”<br>      •  James Longstreet fought the Battle of Antietam wearing carpet slippers.<br>      •  William T. Sherman was the victim of two shipwrecks on the same day.<br>      •  Harriet Tubman experienced frequent and bizarre hallucinations.<br>      •  Stonewall Jackson was a notorious hypochondriac (he always sat up straight, fearing that<br>         slouching would compress his vital organs).<br>  <br> With chapters on everyone from William Quantrill (a guerilla leader whose skull later ended up in the basement of a fraternity house) to Rose O'Neal Greenhow (perhaps the South's most glamorous spy), <i>Secret Lives of the Civil War</i> features a mix of famous faces and unsung heroes. American history was never this much fun in school!