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I’ve never read a book about a soldier in the middle of a war. Jeff Bussey is just a boy, but he decides to enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War. He longs for fighting. Time after time, he gets whisked away to other duties while the other soldiers fight. Finally, he is set up against the Southern Army and he finds it is not the glorious adventure he thought it would be. He makes an enemy of his commander and has to fight not only the Southern soldiers, but his own commander. Jeff is sel
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Jeff Bussey is a boy living in Kansas near the beginning of the Civil War. He enthusiastically joins the Union army, ready to fight the rebels and have a big adventure. Soon he faces the bitter realities of war as he watches his fellow soldiers suffer injury and death. Crossing enemy lines, Jeff begins to realize things are more complicated than he initially imagined. He sees the humanity of the enemy and recognizes the toll the war is taking on civilian populations, but still maintaining his be
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Jan 17, 2022
Kirsten Barber
marked it as to-read-soon
