A war meeting in the Town Hall of Rossville sends Frank Frost’s father off to fight for the Union, and Frank resolves to run the farm in his place. Debts, doubting neighbours and the hard work of a farming year test the boy at home, while news from the camp and the battlefield reaches the village in letters.
An early Alger novel of 1864 that shows the home front of the Civil War through a boy’s eyes. Download the free EPUB.