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Rifles for Watie

by Harold Keith · 1957

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Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy.

Juvenile fictionFictionUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865HistoryWars, 1862-1865Child soldiersIndians of North AmericaNewbery MedalLiteratura estadounidenseLarge type booksFiction, historical, generalUnited states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction