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They were called drummer boys - the first to rouse the troops in the morning, the last to sound retreat in battle.

When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.

Contains a collection of seven short stories about the American Civil War including "The Little Regiment," "An Episode of War," and "The Veteran" which features Henry Fleming, the protagonist from "The Red Badge of Courage.

Set in the Civil War, the story of Henry Fleming, a raw Union army recruit eager to confirm his patriotism and prove his manhood.

During the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope, seized by the band of Tories who attack her Connecticut home, finds herself enslaved in a Tory household on Long Island and uses all her resources to escape from her captors and make her way home.

As a young orphaned drummer boy in the Civil War, Josh Parrish joins the 20th Maine in time to be caught up in the battle for Little Round Top.

When Jamie Lockhart arrives in Port Republic during the last winter of the Civil War, he learns a terrible secret that the army would kill to keep hidden, and with only the help of a one-armed soldier and a beautiful young woman, Jamie must find a way to outwit Sherman's army and stay alive.

A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet, " who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery.

n 1863 Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Ben and his dog Captain set off in search of Ben's brother, who has gone missing from the Union Army.

Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.

In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.

A dramatization of the confrontations between Robert E. Lee, Lawrence Chamberlain, and Ulysses S.

With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.

Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

In Washington, D.C., during the last days of the Civil War, a teenage boy who performs in a mind reading act befriends a clairvoyant girl whose frightening visions foreshadow an assassination plot.