M.A. Kleen

ECW welcomes back guest author M.A. Kleen. The American Civil War gave rise to a host of incredible stories, some heroic, some horrific, and some utterly bizarre. Among the most peculiar and enduring is the myth of the “bullet baby,” the tale of a woman who became pregnant by a Minié ball that passed through […]

Son of a Gun? The Civil War Myth of “Pregnancy by Bullet”