civil war

Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the magic tree house whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is the hardest journey in time yet - and one that will make the most difference to their own lives!.

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In this award-winning page-turner, twelve-year-old orphan Homer runs away from Pine Swamp, Maine, to find his older brother who has been sold into the Union Army.

Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.

They were called drummer boys - the first to rouse the troops in the morning, the last to sound retreat in battle. Willie Johnston, a skinny boy from Vermont, was too young to enlist in the Union forces - he never should have taken part in the Civil War at all...

Traces the historical, cultural, religious, and ethnic factors relating to Africa's civil wars including those in the Sudan, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; and examines how future civil wars can be avoided.

Finding courage she never thought she had, a young Southern girl musters the strength and wit to survive the ravages of the Civil War and keep her family together through it all.

The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty, and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth that man is capable of ruling himself.