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Author Silvey, Anita.

Title I'll pass for your comrade : women soldiers in the Civil War / Anita Silvey.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [2008]
©2008
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 973.74082 Sivey I 2008    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description 115 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
age Children
Audience 1130 Lexile.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-102) and index.
Contents "The music of regimental bands": the first Battle of Bull Run -- "Won't you let me come with you?": reasons for becoming a soldier -- "Don the breeches": enlisting in the military -- "A skirmish drill is the prettiest drill": a soldier's life -- "The whole landscape for an instant turned slightly red": women at Antietam -- "I would rather have been shot dead": hospitals and prisons -- "Touched with fire": after the war.
Summary Sarah Emma Edmonds enlisted because she believed in the Union cause; Melverina Peppercorn joined to stay near her twin brother. Although women were not allowed to enlist as soldiers in the Civil War, many disguised themselves as men and fought anyway.
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 8.3 2.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.3 2.0. Lib 100
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Juvenile literature.
Women soldiers -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Women soldiers.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Women.
Women -- Confederate States of America -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Military participation -- Female.
United States -- Confederate States of America.
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
War fiction.
War fiction.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 0618574913
9780618574919
Standard No. 9780618574919 51700

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