Iron Scouts of the Confederacy

by Michael McHugh and Lee McGiffin

Book Overview

Iron Scouts of the Confederacy - Civil War This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932971580
• ISBN13: 9781932971583
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Christian Liberty Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Civil War book

My boys (ages 12, 10, 8 & 6) and I really enjoyed this book. It was well written, was action-packed and adventurous and upheld courage, loyalty and perseverance.

A Review by Southern Girls

Our family loves this book. It is so refreshing to read a book for young people these days that doesn't crucify the South. We wish there were more like it.

WAR THROUGH THE EYES OF TWO BROTHERS IN THE CONFEDERACY

IRON SCOUTS OF THE CONFEDERACY is about the American people in the 1800s, the war between the North and the South, about 2 teenage brothers growing up in Missouri. I realize there were 2 sides to the war. The Iron Scouts were hired off the farms, to cross enemy lines, put on clothes of the enemy and gather information about the movements of the enemy troops. They had to wear at least one piece of their southern colors, so they would not be mistaken for yankees, and shot as spies. The younger brother Ben was left with the rich neighbors when older brother Gant went to fight in the war. Mother died when Ben was 3 and their dad was killed in the war. He was only 14, short and was looked down on, but was a good hunter and tracker. Gant went to war with a man from Texas who was looking for recruits for the Iron Scouts, Ben was too young, even for the scouts. With his older brother in the confederate Iron Scouts, Ben wants to be an Iron Scout, and spy on the Union Army, too. He travels across the countryside to join the scouts,gets captured by the Yankees, and makes friends with the bugler for the North who is also 14.This is an excellent story, it has adventure and loyality. It makes you think about the real people who were in the war. The story was accurate and had authentic heros from the Civil War.