Strange Tales of the Civil War

Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with a collection of omens, predictions, dreams, and other inexplainable events of the Civil War.

• One of the largest comets of the 19th century suddenly appears just weeks before the first Battle of Bull Run.
  
• Stonewall Jackson's sword mysteriously falls only hours before his fatal wounding in Chancellorsville.
• As a boy, Ulysses S. Grant has his head examined and is told that he will someday become president of the United States.
• A soldier carves his headstone as a joke, only to be killed hours later.
• Colonel Warren Akin of Georgia dreams of his son lying unconscious and bleeding- two days later, his son is thrown form a horse and dies.

Are all of these happenings mere coincidences? Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with a collection of strange stories from America's greatest conflict.