Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
year: 1991
call number/section: 1000
subjects: new market (va.), battle of, 1864, fiction, ghosts, grandmothers, ghost stories, united states, campaigns, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, 1861-1865, civil war