In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.
When Dunc and Amos research the Civil War, they enter a time portal and find themselves in 1862 on the day before the historic clash between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Will they make it back to the future?.
Based on first-person accounts, and illustrated with photographs and drawings, this book portrays a period of brutal repression--and surprising progress--as former enemies struggled to remake a society.
Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with twelve-year-old Abby's hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across an abyss of 133 years.