Bull's-Eyes and Misfires: 50 People Whose Obscure Efforts Shaped the American Civil War

A historian's collection of stories about unknown contributors to the successes and failures of the Union and Confederate sides during the Civil War.

You don't have to know much about the Civil War to be familiar with Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, or William Tecumseh Sherman. Bull's-Eyes and Misfires, however, tells the fascinating stories of fifty largely unknown people who dramatically changed the course of the Civil War by their heroic efforts or bungling mistakes. ...