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No reader’s vision of America’s most brutal and bloody war will be the same after reading this book. This contemporary classic explores the role of boys who fought in the Civil War. “This wrenching look at our nation’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its youthful participants serves up history both heartbreaking and enlightening.” —Publishers Weekly Some Union and Confederate soldiers were as young as twelve when they went off to fight in the Civil War. It is thought that as many as ten to twenty percent of all Civil War soldiers may have been under sixteen.