The Boys' War
Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
By Jim Murphy
(Clarion Books, Hardcover, 9780899198934, 128pp.)
Publication Date: October 1990
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: History - Military & Wars, History - United States/19th Century
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First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.
Jim Murphy is the author of An American Plague, which received the Sibert Medal and a Newbery Honor and was selected as a National Book Award finalist. His Clarion titles include The Boy's War and other award-winning nonfiction as well as a picture book, Fergus and the Night-Demon. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his family. For more information visit www.jimmurphybooks.com.
"An excellent selection of sepia-toned contemporary photographs augment the text of this informative, moving work." School Library Journal, Starred











