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This second installment of stories of the unusual, bizarre, and peculiar from America's greatest conflict includes chapters on dreams, predictions, coincidences, medical oddities, animals, and more: Wounded soldiers fight off hungry hogs on the Wheatfield at Gettysburg. After participating in Sherman's famous March to the Sea, a soldier witnesses a murder in a dream months before it happens. During the Battle of Antietam the position of a gun saves Lee and Longstreet and changes the course of history. Two opposing generals never meet in battle but by strange coincidence finally meet years later at a Shiloh cyclorama. A future Pennsylvania governor and president of Pennsylvania State University is saved in battle by a pencil. While walking the field after the Battle at Gettysburg, a reverend observes a contrast in the condition of Union and Confederate soldiers' corpses.
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