Description There was little funny about a war in which 620, 000 humans died.
When a grandson tried to reclaim the land for the family, those New York Yankees claimed their deed book had been lost in a fire and they would not honor the legit.
One of those ancestors owned more than 100 acres on Manhattan Island, New York in the early 1760s, which he leased to the island\'s government for 99 years.
About the Author Clint Johnson is a native Southerner whose Scots-Irish and Welsh ancestors first settled in North Carolina in the 1730s and 1760s.
He received his journalism degree from the University of Florida, and now lives in North Carolina.
Clint Johnson is a native of Fish Branch, Florida, who has written eight books about the Civil War, as well as biographies and newspaper and magazine articles.
Lurking behind every significant action, as readers will discover, was someone with a red face.
from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Civil War Blunders traces the war according to its amusing, often deadly miscues.
Among the galleries of heroes were: Colonel Edward Baker, who told his Federals to follow the plume of his hat if they wanted to find war--and sent them over a cliff in a panicked retreat
General Felix Zollicoffer, who wore a white raincoat so opposing Federals could see him--but not his eyeglasses so he could see them
Thomas Selfridge of the Union navy, who "found two torpedoes and removed them by placing his vessel over them"
Colonel Alfred Rhett, a captured Southern blue blood whose fancy boots proved too small for every Union officer who coveted them; rum-drinking James Ledlie and dance-instructing Edward Ferrero, generals who kept each other company in a Union bombproof while their men faced slaughter.
Many leaders were drunkards, couldn\'t speak English, didn\'t know a cannon\'s breech from its muzzle.
Union or Confederate, those in command proved adept at making mistakes.
But it was finding humor amid devastation that kept Civil War soldiers marching toward the enemy.
Description There was little funny about a war in which 620, 000 humans died
