Gilbert VanZandt
Gilbert VanZandt

Author: Marilyn Seguin

Publisher: Branden Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0828321167

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For ages 9-12. What would life be like for a 10-year-old drummer boy serving in the American Civil War? Essentially the same as for any enlistee! There was little opportunity to shield anyone from either the good or bad experiences of war. There were playmaking, pranks, jokes, marches, and battles -- as well as carrying the wounded and burying the dead. Courage is commonly ascribed to adults. With Gilbert Van-Zandt, Lil Gib, we must recognise his unusual valour and patriotism -- uncommon at any time, in any war.

No Ordinary Lives
No Ordinary Lives

Author: Marilyn Seguin

Publisher: Branden Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0828321582

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The diaries in this collection include the writings of four young people between the ages of twelve and twentya boy growing up on a lake in Maine, a sea captain's daughter, a Shaker farm boy, and a daughter raised by a single mom. What can we discover from these diaries? Readers may be surprised, for example, by the technology available to Delmer Wilson in the Shaker community in 1887. Because all these diaries were produced during the writers' developmental years, teachers and young readers may find comments about school and growing-up issues to be of some interest. Young readers will also want to compare teenage life today with that of the past. Some teenage girls of today may find that their pastimes don't differ all that much from those of Ethel Godfrey in 1894. And, like Augusta Skolfield, how many of us have gazed up at a bright moon and thought about that same light shining on loved ones far away? Readers will find the personalities themselves of great interest. Nat Hathorne, f

Callow, Brave and True
Callow, Brave and True

Author: Jay S. Hoar

Publisher: Thomas Publications (PA)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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"The issue over who were the youngest military figures to have rendered plausible or direct service to the Confederate States Army or to the Union Army has often been broached, and has sporadically been treated in far-flung articles by a variety of freelancers and historians ... my unique vantage point of operating with a full knowledge of details on most of the nation's eldest and last Civil War veterans ... Reb or Yank, of those among our last surviving veterans who some eighty years earlier had been only boys age 15 or well under."--Page xiii-xiv.