True Stories of unusual happenings during the Civil war.
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There wasn\'t damage from cannon balls, but souvenir-hunting Union officers left McLean\'s parlor bare of furniture.
In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where ``the sound of battle would never again reach him and his family.`` Almost four years later, McLean\'s Appomattox Court House home was used for Lee\'s surrender to Grant.
True Stories of unusual happenings during the Civil war