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by Fred Dubose

Author:	Fred Dubose
Subcategory:	Americas
Language:	English
Publisher:	Reader's Digest (April 14, 2011)
Pages:	176 pages
Category:	History
Rating:	4.8
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I Used to Know That book. Author Fred DuBose takes you beyond the history book and in a lively style brings to life colorful stories that include heroes, brilliant military strategists, blunderers, spies, wives on the home front, Underground Railroad facilitators, surgeons, and journalists who took the highs and lows of the war to the public.

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I Used to Know That: Civil War: stuff you forgot from school. Coauthors & Alternates. by Fred DuBose, Greg Connolly, Charles Corpion, John Varriano. ISBN 9781606522448 (978-1-60652-244-8) Hardcover, Reader's Digest, 2011. Find signed collectible books: 'I Used to Know That: Civil War: stuff you forgot from school'.

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As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches, the fascination with all things Civil War continues ever more strongly. With I Used to Know That: Civil War, snippets of history class will come rushing back as you recall that: The mere election of Abraham Lincoln pushed seven Southern states to secede. Distinguished soldier and military strategist Robert E. Lee was offered command of the U.S. Army two days before he was chosen to lead the rebel army of Northern Virginia. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy spinster who lived in the Confederate capital, feigned craziness to mask her activities as one of the Union's most effective spies. Robert Smalls, a slave, absconded with a Confederate ship, went on to pilot ships for the Union Navy, and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after the war. Author Fred DuBose takes you beyond the history book and in a lively style brings to life colorful stories that include heroes, brilliant military strategists, blunderers, spies, wives on the home front, Underground Railroad facilitators, surgeons, and journalists who took the highs and lows of the war to the public.

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Faezahn

To say that this book is biased and ignorant of facts is such an understatement!
A good example is his comments on colonization (deporting all blacks). He makes mention of Henry Clay, a proponent of colonization, and James Forten, who was against it, but he makes no mention of Lincoln and his role as a 'manager' of the Illinois Colonization Society or his following of Henry Clay who was solidly a leader in the American Colonization Society.
Throughout this book, he not so subtly slants towards the North and the reason for the War Between the States as being about slavery. He makes little or no mention of the events leading to the war going back to the War of 1812 and New England's desire for secession nor the taxation and tariffs placed on South Carolina in 1832 and the repercussions of it. That is just the beginning. There are a lot of details, but not a lot of correct context for those details.
In his comments about the 1864 election where Southern electoral college votes were not allowed to count, he mentions only that Lincoln didn't believe he would be re-elected and one brief statement that McClellan was Lincoln's opponent.
Nor does he mention the fact that Southern Senators were turned away from the steps of Congress so that they couldn't take their seats. There is so much that he doesn't mention, and yet goes into details that mean little to the average reader.
This book, I suppose, is titled correctly in that it is, indeed, "stuff you forgot from high school" because it is a rehash of what most of us were taught instead of the truth. He had a great opportunity to educate, but chose instead to continue the rhetoric of slavery. (I'm not saying that slavery wasn't an issue, it just wasn't the ONLY issue.) This little book was a great disappointment!

Netlandinhabitant

I received this book for Christmas. My wife thought it may challenge my knowledge of the Civil War. I am a Civil War History buff. The author had not done his research very well in writing this book. I feel he had an agenda in telling the reader that Slavery was the only reason for the war. I agree it was a very important segment but far from the ONLY reason for it. The topic of slavery took up 1/3 of the book. Little if nothing about governmental corruption and denial of state rights. Percentage of those southerners that actually had slaves. World events that led up to the north have a steady influx of people arriving to make up the labor force. No other part of the puzzle was mentioned. He did not tie the Emancipation Proclamation as no more than a political move to keep England and France out of the war. If the author had read the Emancipation Proclamation, he would have know it did not free anyone, but legalized slavery in northern held territories like Hampton Roads, Virginia. The northern army needed the labor for the war effort. The author on page 139 could not even get the correct date of General Lee's surrender to General Grant. Look it up Mr. DuBose, it was April 9th, 1865. The title of the book is completely wrong. Myself, the title "I Use To Know That" is all wrong. I had an outstanding 7th grade Virginia history teacher that inspired me to read, visit and explore my family's roots during the Southern Defense Against Northern Aggression. This book is good reading, IF you like fairy tales and fiction. In my opinion the book is pure bunk. Mr. DuBose, Please tell me again when Lincoln was assassinated? Page 152 has this wrong too. How many other facts had I glanced over that you got wrong?

Wooden Purple Romeo

The battle between the North and South reshaped the U.S. in many ways. The author,Fred DuBose takes us on a easy to follow in-depth history read broken up into time periods, and is divided into three sections: The Antebellum Period, The War Between the States, and The Reconstruction Era. You'll be reminded of the state of our Country and how the Civil War became eminent. The interesting and thorough summary of everyone from the spies, activists, soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens that had a revealing part in this battle is a page-turner.

A great read for middle school and high school students alike.

Rolling Flipper

One of the best little books balanced on historical fact and annotated information you seldom find in the marketplace. Rebel or Yank this is the perfect gift for those who love to dig through the sidebars of history. This reader can't wait for the sequel: I-Used-to-Know-That-Civil-War, Part II. Certainly a genuine work by an experienced and versed author. Christmas gifts solved. Thanks.

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