The boys' war: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War

Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.

  • OCLC #: 20419540
  • ISBN #:
    • 9780899198934
    • 0899198937
    • 9780395664124
    • 0395664128
    • 9781439578841
    • 1439578842
  • Call #: E464.M87 1990
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Children's and Young Adult — E464 .M87 1990
  • Personal Collection:
    • The James W. Wengert, M.D. Military Medical Collection.
  • Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, ©1990.
  • Physical Description: 110 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Target Audience:
    • Ages 10-12.
  • General Notes:
    • Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.
  • Contents:
    • The war begins --
    • "So I became a soldier" --
    • Marching off to war --
    • "What a foolish boy" --
    • Drumbeats and bullets --
    • A long and hungry war --
    • Home sweet home --
    • Changes --
    • Prison bars and the surgeon's saw --
    • "We're going home."
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