God Knows All Your Names e-bog

People with only aslight interest in history will enjoy these fascinating, short and easy to understand stories. Serious history buffs will like these lesser-known episodes, not the stories weve heard a million times. For example: try to find anyone who knowsabout the attempted slave insurrection in Fairfax County, Virginia. With Mary Lincolns spending habits, who knew that Abraham Lincolnactually saved an enormous percentage of his presidential salary? A slave honored in Virginia with a monument; the history of Lee Highway which openedwith great fanfare in 1923 as a 3,000 mile road from Washington, DC to SanDiego; a story about the Little River Turnpike, the secondoldest turnpike in America, built partly by slaves and captured Hessian soldiers. Youll read about two Civil War shipsthat collided in the Potomac River. Victims included wounded soldiers' wives and one soldiers six-year-old son.Youll read a great account of the massive Civil War corruption. Youll learn about the disastrous condition of the treasury (sound familiar?) during theRevolutionary War. The government tried everything, including a lottery to get the country afloat in a sea of red ink. But the most fascinating story may be about the Revolutionary War soldier who faked his own desertionto defect to the enemy with the highly secretive mission of going behind enemy lines tocapture and return for trial the worst traitor in American history: BenedictArnold. Bet you never heard of this story.There are manyother stories in this eclectic, heavily-researched manuscript. Theres a story about the Christmas Truce in World War One, about long-forgottenholidays in Virginia, about the retrocession which sent an area of Washington back to Virginiain 1846, and about the impeachment of a Supreme Court justice (it happened onlyonce). And more!