A picture book biography of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who served as a spy in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Bullets whizzed overhead, narrowly missing twelve-year-old Johnny Clem. Although he had joined the Union army as a drummer boy, Johnny was prepared to protect himself and his fellow soldiers. Join Johnny on the battlefield as he fights to stay alive.

A brief look at the life of United States president Abraham Lincoln.

Recounts events surrounding the mysterious sinking of the Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, and its recent recovery from deep in the waters off the coast of South Carolina.

A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse. Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing and compelled to service by his brother's war injury, Walt nursed all soldiers-Union & Confederate, black & white. By getting to know them through...