Civil War limericks
By: Charles H. Hayes
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Gretna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781455619597; 9781455619603
Subjects: Poetry; History; Limericks
Description: "This collection of original limericks focuses on the personalities and topics of the era. Each is accompanied by an original caricature illustration as well as text that expands on the subject. Topics include Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the last battle of the war"--
Table of contents: title: Webster, Calhoun, and Clay : the Missouri Compromise; title: Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1853; title: William Lloyd Garrison : a northern secessionist; title: Charles Sumner : a severe caning; title: Roger B. Taney : the Dred Scott Decision; title: John Brown : the Raid on Harpers Ferry; title: Francis Pickens : South Carolina calls it quits; title: James Buchanan : a missed opportunity; title: Jefferson Finis Davis : first (and last) president; title: Varina Howell Davis : "Winnie"; title: Alexander Hamilton Stephens : the South's number two man; title: Abraham Lincoln : first inaugural address; title: Mary Todd Lincoln : First Hen; title: William Seward : stately Seward; title: Gideon Welles : dry-land sailor; title: Simon Cameron : crafty and grafty; title: Robert Anderson : heroic loser; title: Edmund Ruffin : first shot big shot; title: Winfield Scott : the Anaconda Plan; title: Irvin McDowell : First Manassas; title: Thomas J. Jackson : call him "Stonewall"; title: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard : birth of a symbol; title: Robert A. Toombs : presidential wannabe; title: Edwin M. Stanton : the Grumpy of Lincoln's cabinet; title: Felix Kirk Zollicoffer : brave but nearsighted; title: George B. McClellan : Little Mac builds an army; title: Henry Halleck : Old Brains; title: Gideon Pillow, Simon Buckner, and John Floyd : three blind mice; title: Julia Ward Howe : Battle Hymn; title: Ulysses S. Grant : unconditional surrender; title: Franklin Buchanan : the CSS Virginia; title: John Ericsson : a match for the Virginia; title: John B. Magruder : the showman of Yorktown; title: Benjamin Franklin Cheatham : fighting general; title: Albert Sydney Johnston : if only; title: Don Carlos Buell : second day at Shiloh; title: P.G.T. Beauregard : bumpy career; title: Belle Boyd : Belle of the Ball; title: Benjamin Franklin Butler : "Spoons" Butler; title: Ivan Turchin : war, Cossack style; title: Joseph E. Johnston : bad news and good news; title: Robert E. Lee : American hero; title: Richard Taylor : president's son; title: Generals Banks, Shields, and Fremont : Jackson's Valley magic; title: James Longstreet : Lee's war horse; title: Clara Barton : Angel of Mercy; title: John Pope : Second Manassas; title: Abraham Lincoln : emancipation; title: Ambrose E. Burnside : tough opponents; title: Oliver Otis Howard : Chancellorsville; title: Joseph Hooker : "Fighting" Joe and the hookers; title: Earl Van Dorn : more enemies than the Yanks; title: Emma Sansom : till the cows come home; title: Abel Streight : a bluff beats a Streight; title: John C. Pemberton : Seige at Vicksburg; title: George Gordon Meade : a step up; title: Richard S. Ewell : "Old Baldy"; title: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : downhill battle; title: George Pickett : just charge it; title: Lewis Addison Armistead : in charge of the charge; title: James Ewel Brown Stuart : AWOL at Gettysburg; title: William Clark Quantrill : the Kansas-Missouri War; title: George Armstrong Custer : Fighting Goldilocks; title: Elizabeth Van Lew : crazy like a fox; title: George H. Thomas : Rock of Chickamauga; title: William S. Rosecrans : not so rosy; title: Richard William Dowling : invasion stopper; title: Braxton Bragg : nothing to "Bragg" about; title: Judah P. Benjamin : Brainy Benjamin; title: John Singleton Mosby : Gray Ghost; title: Abraham Lincoln : Gettysburg Address; title: Nathan Bedford Forrest : War Wizard; title: Ambrose Powell Hill and Daniel Harvey Hill : Lee's two Hills; title: Ulric Dahlgren : assassination plotter; title: John C. Breckenridge : a boy does a man's job; title: Leonidas Polk : Fighting Bishop; title: Raphael Semmes : the CSS Alabama; title: William J. Hardee : the authority; title: Philip Seridan : burning the valley; title: David Glasgow Farragut : staying Mobile in the Bay; title: Jubal Early : Early came late; title: John Hunt Morgan : one raid too many; title: William Tucumseh Sherman : Firebug; title: Rose O'Neal Greenhow : you can't take it with you; title: Patrick R. Cleburne : Irish wisdom; title: John Bell Hood : Gallant Fool; title: William Tecumseh Sherman : up a creek; title: Lee and Grant : at Appomattox; title: John Wilkes Booth : last act; title: Jefferson Finis Davis : end of the road; title: Thaddeus Stevens : vendetta; title: William G. Brownlow : Poisonous Parson; title: Andrew Johnson : the Little Tailor; title: John "Rip" Ford : last battle; title: Sterling Price : governor to general; title: Joseph Wheeler : last hurrah.