Often as I was reading current events were brought to mind that I never would have thought to compare with times like these, where half of the country demands one right and half insists on the other. We learn what it was like to be a family member whose house was looted by soldiers who were starving and didn't want to do what they did, but necessity changed their character from kindly requesting food to simply snatching it over the course of a few months.Freedom and equality are still being fought for to this day, so the ideas behind this book are hardly old or worn. We don't just live the life of a soldier, we live with families from the Western Band of the Cherokee Nation, those who were sent on the Trail of Tears and forced to resettle. Yes, he makes friends and he looses friends and some of the soldiers he meets wanted to be in battle and some were told to be, some were as young or younger than he was and some were adults, but beyond the typical stories of a soldier we learn what life was like in the area at the time. An amazing look at what life in the Civil War was like for one boy from Kansas.
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