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William Hugh McDowell Most young readers of Civil War historic fiction meet Hugh for the first time in Elaine Marie Alphin’s book Ghost Cedet. In the

A Young Confederate Casualty This unknown 14-year-old Confederate boy soldier was killed by bayonet at Fort Mahone. EDWIN JENNISON – a Confederate Drummer Boy. Private

Lyston Howe, age 10 Orion Howe, age 13 The stories of Lyston and Orion Howe can be found in G. Clifton Wisler’s book, When Johnny Went Marching.

This image on the left appears in an on-line search of Civil War drummer boys with text telling about young boys who served in the

Prepared by J. Arthur Moore Introduction Introduction James Marten, in his collection of essays about Children and Youth During the Civil War Era, wrote that the

Death and the Drummer Boy: Facing Death During the American Civil War Prepared by J. Arthur Moore During the years of the Civil War, death

Boys, like this one aboard the U.S.S. New Hampshire, were called powder monkeys because they ran bags of gunpowder from the stores below deck to

Gathered by J. Arthur Moore three boys from the book, Blake’s Story Revenge and Forgiveness More than 200,000 under-aged boys, 17 years old and younger

David Wood, age 10 Company A, 6th Missouri Cavalry David Wood was 10 years old when the war broke out. His father, Samuel, had moved