Rifles For Watie

lots of references to 'Johnny Reb'. it's kind of one-sided to refer to the confederate soldiers as being 'confused about the war.' to them it was a conflict over states' rights. not many of them were fighting to keep slaves: they were too poor to do that. it was only after, that Lincoln made the war about freeing the slaves. He needed the Negro soldiers. A similar, contemporary dispute is over 'sanctuary cities.' The federal government doesn't want them because the feds are attempting to control illegal immigration. Some cities want to be sanctuaries. And are, to this day. But there will be no civil war over it.

this is a great civil war book. its one that does not show the confederates as bloodless killers but as humans involved and confused about the war. I also learned a lot about the civil war

My 11 yr. old daughter loved this book and learned a lot about the Civil War! She has been reading and looking for everything and anything she can find about the Civil War since. The characters and story of this book was so captivating to her.

This book was kind of slow the whole way through, but it had a lot of adventure and a great view of what the Civil War was like for the Confederates, and the Union soldiers.

Had to read it for school. It's slow at first, but I ended up reading ahead because it was pretty good.

kind of the opposite point of view fro. The other book The Perilous Road