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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Published: Sep 2000
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - Military & Wars
Retail Price: $7.99
Ages: 12 - 17 Pages: 128
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a 'shooting war' meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure.
The 'shooting war' turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came back he was different; he was only 19, but he was a man with 'soldier's heart,' later known as 'battle fatigue.