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Sharpshooter : a novel of the Civil War

Title
Sharpshooter : a novel of the Civil War / David Madden.
Author
Madden, David, 1933-
Publication
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1996.

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Description
160 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
The up-and-down life of a boy who enrolled as a soldier in the Civil War. Starting on the Union side, Willis Carr, 13, is captured and given the choice of execution or joining the Confederacy. He joins, only to desert, is recaptured and sent to be a guard in a prison. Finally he gets something out of the war, a slave teaches him to read and write.
Subject
  • 1861-1865
  • Shooters of firearms > Fiction
  • Shooters of firearms
  • Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
  • Belletristische Darstellung
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Fictional Work
  • Fiction.
  • History.
  • War stories.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Romans.
ISBN
  • 0870499483
  • 9780870499487
LCCN
96009994
OCLC
  • ocm34356780
  • 34356780
  • SCSB-2099333
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library