Hardcover, 148 pages
English language
Published Oct. 23, 1994 by Delacorte.
4 stars
(1 review)
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
Subjects
- Foster home care -- Fiction
- Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction
- Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- Wilson's Creek, Battle of, Mo., 1861 -- Fiction