War Memorial — Elisabeth Grace Foley

At the bottom of an old trinket-box lies a misshapen bit of lead -- a bullet from the Civil War, an old family keepsake preserved, but mostly forgotten, by later generations. And behind it lies a story -- the story of a young girl's experiences in the days surrounding the fateful battle of Gettysburg, which force her to examine her own heart and show her the face of war in a way she could not have understood before.

“War Memorial” is a short story, approximately 6,500 words long.