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Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard cover

Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard

Gary Paulsen

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In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure. The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came back he was different; he was only 19, but he was a man with "soldier's heart," later known as "battle fatigue."

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
ISBN-13
9780440228387
Topics
Civil WarComing of ageTrauma of war

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