Ralph, a young volunteer in the Union army, marches to Washington at the outbreak of war and learns soldiering the hard way: picket duty, headquarters errands, the disaster at Ball’s Bluff, winter quarters, Fair Oaks and South Mountain. Camp jokes and comrades’ deaths sit side by side in a story written for boys.
A patriotic juvenile history of the war in story form, of interest to young readers and collectors of Civil War fiction. Download the free EPUB.