Johnny promised his father, wounded while fighting for the South, that he would take care of the family and not run off to fight. When there's a re...
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Apr 17, 2011
Laura
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To be honest, I read this book because of the cover. The cover features photographs of a black Federal soldier and a white Rebel soldier, both very young.
It covers the last two weeks of the American Civil War. I was disappointed because I found the main character so unlikeable. He's a liar and he breaks a very important promise to his dying father. I can understand why he breaks the promise but rationalizations don't cut much water with me.
I enjoyed, though, his wrestling wit More...
It covers the last two weeks of the American Civil War. I was disappointed because I found the main character so unlikeable. He's a liar and he breaks a very important promise to his dying father. I can understand why he breaks the promise but rationalizations don't cut much water with me.
I enjoyed, though, his wrestling wit More...
Jan 09, 2011
Peter
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I picked this one up along with several other books by James Lincoln Collier at the library. I've long been a fan of his Lost Treasures: The Teddy Bear Habit - Book #3, and since I was thinking of that at the library one day, I picked up several more books of his on a whim.
But With Every Drop of Blood almost got returned to the library unread. I read another book of his first, Outside Looking in, and it had been rather disappointing. And despite the old maxim, the cover of With Every D More...
But With Every Drop of Blood almost got returned to the library unread. I read another book of his first, Outside Looking in, and it had been rather disappointing. And despite the old maxim, the cover of With Every D More...
Feb 06, 2011
Dotty
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Johnny, a Southern teenager, is captured by a Negro company of soldiers during the Civil War. His captor, Cush, wants to learn to read using Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.
This book provides a cool perspective of the Southern mind and relationship to slaves and to the war. The authors do a good job of maintaining the mindset of Johnny with a gradual realization that perhaps the two are friends before it’s all over. The beginning of the novel reads a bit like a history lesson, but part More...
This book provides a cool perspective of the Southern mind and relationship to slaves and to the war. The authors do a good job of maintaining the mindset of Johnny with a gradual realization that perhaps the two are friends before it’s all over. The beginning of the novel reads a bit like a history lesson, but part More...
Mar 20, 2010
Lars
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Like the Colliers' 'My Brother Sam Is Dead,' somewhat didactic, but also like that book, a well-told tale that moves briskly along, giving the reader unflinching looks at the horrors of war and captivating glimpses of the last days of the most horrible of American wars, with a visit to Appomatox just before Generals Grant and Lee meet in Wilmer McLean's parlor. McLean is a minor character in the book. Cush, an African-American private in the Union army who is charged with guarding the fourteen
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Apr 29, 2009
Hunter
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Great book, involves a kid named Johney who has a hatred for the yankee's after they killed his father. Johney enraged forgets about what his father said and goes of to war, or driving a cart in the war. He dodges bullets for a while then he is caught by a union soldier, named cush. He is no ordinary soldier though, he is a darky. Cush orders johney around and johney doesn't have a choice, all in all he feels guilty about lieing to his pa before he died and a whole mess of other stuff. If you li
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May 05, 2009
Shelby
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this book is taking place during the civil war and the main charcters name is johnny and johnny has a little sister name sarah and a little brother named sam...johnnys father was fighting and got shot at cedar creek and so now johnny and his ma has to do all the work.when johnny was in town some guys was talking bout the wagon trained and asked johnny to come along so johnny told his ma bout it and went..when their on their way to take food to the soilders a black soilder name private turner cap
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May 29, 2009
Catherine
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While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier, Cush. The two of them eventually become unlikely friends and at the end of the war travel together back to their home. Cush wants Johnny to teach him to read. Johnny thinks it is improper to teach a black person to read and struggles with the request, especially since Cush's choice of reading material is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Dec 10, 2011
Rena
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Good, fairly accurate relating of a friendship between a white Southern boy and a black Southern conscript into the Union Army.
I could imagine this friendship developing in just the way the Collier's describe and ending just the way they portray it.
It touches on the growth of young men as they face real life and have to begin making their own decisions and choosing what their heart says is right or wrong, vs. what society has told them.
There were times when the boo More...
I could imagine this friendship developing in just the way the Collier's describe and ending just the way they portray it.
It touches on the growth of young men as they face real life and have to begin making their own decisions and choosing what their heart says is right or wrong, vs. what society has told them.
There were times when the boo More...
Mar 04, 2009
Kim
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Wonderful book about the Civil War. I read it for my classroom, but fell in love with it. Of course, the Civil War is my favorite time in history.
Oct 29, 2009
Kim
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A black union soldier captures a white rebel soldier and an unlikely friendship forms
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