Description
Duane Kinkade was ten years old in the summer of 1861 when raiders struck his farm after
his pa had gone to the war; eleven the following spring when he left in search of his father
and became a part of the war himself; thirteen the summer he returned home, a veteran
soldier after two and a half years of army life and battlefi eld experience. An intricate blend
of fact and fiction, the thread of experience of the
fictitious boy soldier runs through the
fabric of a very real war and its historic violence as it actually happened.