Young Adult · Historical Fiction · Civil War
by John Martin
Two brothers from Kentucky, captured by the Rebel army. Now they're fighting for survival inside Andersonville Confederate Prison — and searching for a father they believe is somewhere within those same prison walls.
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Catherine Sovocool · Piedmont, CA
Brothers of War puts readers inside one of the most brutal chapters of the American Civil War. Two Kentucky brothers — captured, imprisoned, and separated from their father — must survive Andersonville while clinging to the hope that he's somewhere inside those walls.
Martin wrote this book because the Civil War is one of the few American conflicts where boys actually fought. Some were as young as nine years old. Their stories have largely gone untold. Brothers of War tells one of them.
Historical Context
National laws now prevent boys from serving in American wars — but no such laws existed during the Civil War. Boys as young as nine years old participated in this conflict, and we have no accurate count of how many enlisted for either side. Estimates suggest more than four hundred thousand boys were directly involved.
Andersonville was one of the largest Confederate military prison compounds of the war. More than forty-five thousand Union soldiers were confined within its walls. Over thirteen thousand died from disease, malnutrition, and gross overcrowding. The site is now a National Historic Site, designated by the National Park System as a memorial to all American prisoners of war.
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