This book is indescribably steep!! This book took me on an adventure into US History I wasnt prepared for!! It walked me through photos and text describing the Civil War ranks, the enrollment lines. Although the rules say you must be 18 to fight, boys were allowed to be buglers and drummers as young as 12. I read about the boys feelings of potentially getting lost in a unit of 100,000 men fighting another 100,000, standing by watching men die, picking up fighting where the dead left off, and even collecting the bodies of the dead as late as a year later!! I was speechless!! The photos told the story with gruesome detail!! I would use this book cautiously with 7+graders in talks and studies related to my tags. ( )

I love old photographs because you can look at them and compare the people to today. You frequently find that people still look the same in terms of what's handsome, etc. This book helps remind you that this was our most violent and deadly war and yet it also had the most young solders of all our wars. TEACHES KIDS THAT WAR IS RELEVANT TO THEM BECAUSE PEOPLE THEIR AGE ONCE FOUGHT THEM AND IN SOME COUNTRIES STILL DO.

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