A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.

Offers a visual perspective on the Civil War as reflected by artifacts ranging from a soldier's footlocker and the Emancipation Proclamation to leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier and Grant's handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox.

It's the greatest untold story of the Civil War,and one of the newest. For 150 years, the battlefields of Virginia, Gettysburg, and Antietam were what Americans thought of first when they thought of the Civil War. Wrong. While Easterners were battling to a bloody stalemate, Midwestern farmers, shopkeepers, and country lawyers fighting elsewhere were shaping the war's outcome. Dismissed by haughty Easterners asarmed rabble ordrunkards, these citizen-soldiers,...

"In the decades that followed the American Civil War, artist James E. Kelly (1855-1933) conducted in-depth interviews with over 40 Union generals in an effort to accurately portray them in their greatest moment of glory."--Dust jacket.