Creative Minds in Desperate Times: The Civil War's Most Sensational Schemes and PlotsWhen the Civil War broke out, leaders on both sides had to develop strategies for fighting the conflict and considered almost any suggestion. This book chronicles some of the most intriguing and unusual plans devised by these leaders. |
Contents
Dr NightlyThe Yellow Fever Plot | |
Genius at Work | |
Winfield ScottThe Anaconda Plan | |
A Pennsylvania MinerThe Crater | |
Bennett H YoungYankee Gold on the Border | |
Nipped in the | |
John BrownCarving a New Nation | |
Charles WilkesMinus Four Passengers | |
Sons of LibertyThe Great Northwest Conspiracy | |
Jubal Anderson EarlyThe Late Raid | |
Much Ado about Nearly Nothing | |
Stephen R MalloryIron Afloat | |
David Dixon PorterThe Black Terror | |
Sam UphamPaper Bullets | |
Robert SmallsCaptain for a | |
Brutus de VilleroiUnderwater Warfare | |
Bizarre as a Byzantine Novel | |
William H SewardOne Way to Avoid Civil | |
Thomas J JacksonA Big Catch of Fish | |
Josiah TattnallRefit and Fight | |
Gustavus V FoxA Fleet of Stone | |
Robert B PegramDestination London | |
Jeb StuartOne Hundred Thousand Blue Monkeys | |
Ulysses S GrantThe River Bypass | |
Alexander H StephensNo Peace But a Union Peace | |
Robert C KennedyThe Fiery Plans of Southern Terrorism | |
Two VirginiasThe Mountaineers and the Gentry | |
John Wilkes BoothThe Last Plot | |
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