Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library to host “Little Known Facts About the Civil War” June 13

“Little Known Facts About the American Civil War” will be presented by speaker and author Bob O’Connor at Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library Friday, June 13, at 1 p.m.

Does anyone know, for instance, that Robert E. Lee was not a citizen of the United States when he died?  Or that a Civil War soldier invented Coca Cola to overcome his addiction to morphine? Or that there were brothers in the South who were Siamese twins - one was drafted while the other wasn’t.

Does anyone know what Ulysses S. Grant’s middle name was? Or that both sides in the Civil War used camels as pack animals?

Find out about these and other facts that will stump even the most avid Civil War enthusiast. For more information contact the Lansing Library at 563-538-4693.

O’Connor lives in Charles Town, WV, close to most of the sites of his books. He has now published five Little Known Facts books and is working on book six.