Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
by:
Gary Paulsen (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299045514 (1299045510)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Academic,
School,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
War,
Military,
Military History,
Civil War
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure.The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the ...