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01-09-2011
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Tim Rowland
Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War
Tim Rowland
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€12,29
Strange
and
Obscure
Stories
of
the
Civil
War
is
an
entertaining
look
at
the
Civil
War
stories
that
don’t
get
told,
and
the
misadventures
you
haven’t
read
about
in
history
books.
Share
in
all
the
humorous
and
strange
events
that
took
place
behind
the
scenes
of
some
of
the
most
famous
Civil
War
moments.
Picture
a
pedestal
in
a
public
park
with
no
statue
on
top;
Rowland’s
book
explains
that
when
the
members
of
the
New
York
Monument
Commission
went
to
hire
a
sculptor
to
finish
the
statue,
they
were
shocked
to
discover
that
there
was
no
money
left
in
the
agency’s
accounts
to
pay
for
the
project.
The
money
for
the
statue
of
Dan
Sickles
had
been
stolen—stolen
by
former
monument
committee
chairman
Dan
Sickles!Brig.
Gen.
Philip
Kearny
was
the
son
of
a
New
York
tycoon
who
had
helped
found
the
New
York
Stock
Exchange,
and
who
groomed
his
boy
to
be
a
force
on
Wall
Street.
The
younger
Kearny
decided
his
call
was
to
be
a
force
on
the
field
of
battle,
so
despite
a
law
degree
and
an
inheritance
of
better
than
$1
million,
he
joined
the
U.S.
Army
and
studied
cavalry
tactics
in
France.
His
dashing
figure
in
the
saddle
earned
him
the
name
of
Kearny
the
Magnificent,
probably
because
Kearny
rode
with
a
pistol
in
one
hand
and
a
sword
in
the
other
while
holding
the
horse’s
reins
in
his
teeth.
This
habit
proved
useful
after
he
lost
his
left
arm
in
the
Mexican
War,
because
he
was
able
to
continue
to
wave
his
sword
with
all
the
menace
to
which
he
was
accustomed
while
still
guiding
his horse.
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