Bull Run
By Paul Fleischman
Sixteen different characters from North and South, including soldiers, family members, an artist, an orphan, a doctor, etc) describe their feelings about the war. As the first major battle looms, excitement builds as relatives bring their picnic lunches to watch from a distant hill what they think will be a quick rout of the enemy, but their initial excitement eventually gives way to disillusionment and fear as the Battle of Bull Run becomes a serious military encounter and the beginning of a long war.
This is a young adult novel, which worked out well as a script for a readers' theatre.
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