Abraham's Battle: A Novel of Gettysburg

by Sara Harrell Banks

Paperback, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

813

Genres

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

Aladdin (2001), 96 pages

Description

In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army.

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LibraryThing member jen.redmini

Abraham, a black slave, and Lamar, a white soldier meet up on a path and start a conversation. Both realize that they miss their home. Each goes his seperate way and they meet up once again at that fateful battle at Gettysburg. This time Lamar has been injured. Should Abraham, who along with his

donkey drives an ambulance, save Lamar, turn him over to the confederates or to the union? You'll have to read this story to find out what happens to these two young men on opposite sides of the war.

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LibraryThing member Warnerp

Short chapter book for 5th-6th grade level readers.

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