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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| James Marten. Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. (American Childhoods.) Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2004. Pp. 209. $26.00.
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| This book offers a vivid account of the lives of northern children during the American Civil War. James Marten takes a broad look at the war's impact on children, from those who stayed at home to the chilling accounts of child soldiers, a few as young as eight or nine years old. The book is primarily a narrative, a textured, richly detailed description of children's experience during this wrenching period of American history, showing the ways in which the war interrupted children's lives and in many cases changed them permanently. |
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