Brave Kids
by Susan E. Goodman · August 2002
Popularity 14
Twelve-year-old drummer boy Robert Henry Hendershot joins the Union Army over his mother's objections and takes part in the Battle of Fredericksburg despite the company commander's attempts to remove him from the battlefield.
BiographyChild soldiersDrummers (Musicians)Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862HistoryHistory, MilitaryJuvenile ParticipationJuvenile literatureMilitary HistoryParticipation, JuvenilePontoon bridgesRappahannock River (Va.)