civil war, 1861-1865

Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate to Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.

James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

As an African-American boy and his white friend watch the construction of a house which will make them neighbors on the site of a Civil War battlefield, they agree that their homes are monuments to that war.

Examines the tragic period in United States history, focusing on the life of military leaders and soldiers on both sides, slave owners, abolitionists, and the average citizens who were affected by the horror of the war.

In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

Thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll takes his place as head of the family after his father dies fighting for the Union; but his job at the local ironworks, where he helps build an iron ship for the Union army, and his loyalty come into question when he is approached by Confederate spies to sell secrets about the ship to the South.

A thirteen-year-old soldier, coming of age during the American Civil War, beats his drum to raise tunes and spirits and muffle the sounds of the dying.

A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.

Examines the roles some women played during the Civil War including Clara Barton who nursed the wounded, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, a former slave who spied on Jefferson Davis; Rose Greenhow, a Confederate spy; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who helped others to escape; and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin.".