Soldier’s Heart: A Novel of the Civil War

Charley Goddard, fifteen, leaves his widowed mother to "see some fighting" during the Civil War, even though he doesn’t really understand what the fighting is about. Over the next four years, he witnesses the horror of combat, searches for friends in fields of wounded and dead, and discovers the meaning of rage and sorrow-experiences that indelibly change him. Author’s note. Map. bibliography.