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Wind on the River: A Story of the Civil War
Wind on the River reveals the coming-of-age experience of
15-year-old Private John Griffith Allen, a Confederate soldier from
South Carolina. Private Allen survives the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863
only to be captured by Yankee soldiers and sent as a prisoner of war to
the notorious death trap called Point Lookout. After taking the oath of
allegiance, switching sides and becoming a "Galvanized Yankee,"
Griffith is sent to remote Fort Rice on the upper Missouri River in
Dakota Territory. There he struggles to discover who he is while
surviving the rigors of a hostile new environment and a terrifying
Indian war. His encounter with two half - sisters living at Fort Rice
challenges his prejudices and forces him to completely reconsider what
it means to be a hero. (Jamestown's American Portrait Series)
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