TerryB
Lt. Colonel
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2008
- Location
- Nashville TN
What is something truly unique that you recently learned about the ACW? | Questions? Ask Here! No Stone Left Unturned!
With the many thousands of books written about the ACW, there is hardly a battle or campaign for which you cannot go to your local library and readily learn all that you probably ever wanted to know. With that in mind, can you think of something truly unique about the war that you recently...
civilwartalk.com
I also read an account in a contemporary Nashville paper of a Union POW who was taken off a train a slated for execution because he had deserted the CS army.
The Union cavalry in Arkansas forcibly conscripted a number of Rebel deserters, some of who later deserted the Union service. Too many of them to just shoot them.