Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg

Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the...
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Author: Andrea Warren
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Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg by Warren, Andrea

Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg

BD$28.68

Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg

BD$28.68
Author: Andrea Warren
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil War's Battle for Vicksburg. In 1863, Union troops intend to silence the cannons guarding the Mississippi River at Vicksburg - even if they have to take the city by siege. To hasten surrender, they are shelling Vicksburg night and day. Terrified townspeople, including Lucy and Willie, take shelter in caves - enduring heat, snakes, and near suffocation. On the Union side, twelve-year-old Frederick Grant has come to visit his father, General Ulysses S. Grant, only to find himself in the midst of battle, experiencing firsthand the horrors of war.

Living in a cave under the ground for six weeks . . . I do not think a child could have passed through what I did and have forgotten it. - Lucy McRae, age 10, 1863

Period photographs, engravings, and maps extend this dramatic story as award-winning author Andrea Warren re-creates one of the most important Civil War battles through the eyes of ordinary townspeople, officers and enlisted men from both sides, and, above all, three brave children who were there.

Author: Andrea Warren
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 01/20/2015
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781250056931
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 129833 / Under Siege! Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg

About the Author

Andrea Warren's noteworthy nonfiction has received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award as well as a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Award. Her book Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy was a Booklist Editors' Choice and an NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, among other recommendations. She lives in the Kansas City area.




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