Based on the true story of the displacement of Georgia mill workers, this book reveals a little-known aspect of the Civil War as it weaves a compelling and moving narrative around a strong female protagonist.
She escapes from the Kentucky household where she is forced to work as a servant and sets off on a daring adventure that brings her face to face with the horrors of war. Hannalee is separated from her younger brother and another friend, but she is determined to find them and return home. When General Sherman's troops pass through her town, they burn the mill, round up all the mill workers, and send them to work in the North. Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed works in a Georgia textile mill. Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty (Morrow, 1984). The work is dangerous - he must earn the trust of hardened criminals such as Charley Quantrill, Jim Hickok, and Jesse James - but Lije draws on inner reserves of courage and cleverness to bring his mission to a successful conclusion. He becomes a spy for the Union Army, living with a band of bushwhackers and reporting their activities to his fellow abolitionists, or Jayhawkers.
Lije is forever committed to abolishing slavery, and he becomes even more passionate about the cause when his father is killed while attempting to free some slaves from a Missouri plantation. Radical abolitionist John Brown visits his home and blesses him and his sisters. At age twelve, Elijah Tulley has an experience that he will never forget. Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty (Morrow, 1991). He participates in the ship's victorious attack on the Union blockade of Virginia's Norfolk Bay, and in the bloody and inglorious battle that follows. Based on a crucial naval battle that happened in 1862, this book tells the story of Eben Tyne, age thirteen, a powder carrier aboard the Confederate vessel the Merrimack. Charley is plagued by shame over his desertion, but eventually he gets a chance to prove his courage both to Granny Bent and to himself.Įben Tyne, Powdermonkey by Patricia Beatty and Phillip Robbins (Morrow, 1990). She does not trust him at first, and he must hide his identity from the mountain folk who would shoot him at the first sound of his northern accent. Charley "skedaddles" into the wilderness and is reluctantly taken in by a tough old mountain woman.
His eagerness fades abruptly when he sees men dying all around him and even shoots one Confederate soldier himself. His first battle - the Battle of the Wilderness in the Blue Ridge Mountains - is a far cry from his expectations, however. At age twelve Charley is too young to enlist as a soldier in the Union Army, but he sneaks onto a troop ship and becomes a drummer boy. Charley Quinn, a former member of the New York City street gang the Bowery Boys, is determined to avenge the death of his older brother at the Battle of Gettysburg. Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty (Morrow, 1987).
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