Civil War Blunders

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Summary: Wonderful collection of stories
Review: I enjoyed reading Mr johnson's. He took the civil war and made it kinda funny. whoever said this book was drivel was obviosly mistaken. This book should be considered a classic and will go down as one of the best books written about blunders in the civil war because there are so many books on civil war blunders.

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Summary: The best book (and handiest!)
Review: It was oh so handy in writing my report, but a little confusing. But, I don't know much about war terms or the Civil War itself, so you may not find it so confusing. It was so funny to read and made my project much more fun!

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Summary: The best book (and handiest!)
Review: This is a collection of vignettes, each usually about 4 or 5 pages in length, concerning mistakes made (usually by Generals) during the U.S. Civil War. Some of these are fairly well-known, such as the Battle of the Crater, when hundreds of Union troops marched into a huge crater created when engineers blew up an ammo dump, only to have Confederate soldiers simply stand on the rim of the crater and fire down on them at point-blank range; while others are stories previously unknown to me. I was unaware that President Lincoln appointed a number of generals from foreign countries, particularly Germany. There were some German generals in the Northern Army who spoke no English. There also seemed to be plenty of drunken generals, according to this book. There seemed to be a special level of incompetence in this war; I guess the drunkards and incompetents were balanced out by the Lees and Grants.

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Summary: Compendium of Screw-Ups
Review: This is a collection of vignettes, each usually about 4 or 5 pages in length, concerning mistakes made (usually by Generals) during the U.S. Civil War. Some of these are fairly well-known, such as the Battle of the Crater, when hundreds of Union troops marched into a huge crater created when engineers blew up an ammo dump, only to have Confederate soldiers simply stand on the rim of the crater and fire down on them at point-blank range; while others are stories previously unknown to me. I was unaware that President Lincoln appointed a number of generals from foreign countries, particularly Germany. There were some German generals in the Northern Army who spoke no English. There also seemed to be plenty of drunken generals, according to this book. There seemed to be a special level of incompetence in this war; I guess the drunkards and incompetents were balanced out by the Lees and Grants.