civil war

Battle by battle of the Civil War, Gary Paulsen shows the war through one boy's eyes and one boy's heart. Charley Goddard entered the war in June 1861 as a 15 year old boy. He returned a different person.

Chronological depiction of the civil war.

Born in 1833 at Poplar Gove on the East River in Virginia, Sally Louisa Tompkins was the only woman to be commissioned an officer in either the Army of the Confederacy or the Union Army. Following the First Battle of Manassas, she established Robertson Hospital in Richmond, Va. for wounded Confederate Soldiers.

The story of Mary Edwards Walker, 1832-1919. Born in Oswego, NY, she championed womens' rights and was a physician in the Civil War. She wore slacks (bloomers) and lectured on women suffrage.