Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Rifles for Watie /

Keith, Harold, 1903-1998.

Rifles for Watie / - New York : Crowell, c1957. - xiii, 332 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Linn County, Kansas, 1861 -- Bushwhackers -- Fort Leavenworth -- Captain Asa Clardy -- Furlough -- March -- Battle of Wilson's Creek -- Hard lessons -- Light bread and apple butter -- Foraging in the Cherokee country -- Lucy Washbourne -- Battle of Prairie Grove -- Expedition to Van Buren -- The cow lot -- Fate of the Brandts -- The name on the watch -- The ride of Noah Babbitt -- Sunday -- Wrong side of the river -- The Jackmans -- Boggy Depot -- Pheasant Bluff -- The redbud tree -- Flight -- Linn County, Kansas, 1865.

Jeff Bussey, a young farmer, joins the Union volunteers, and becomes a scout and soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and lives to tell about it.

Newbery Medal, 1958.

9780064470308 006447030X 0690701810 9780690701814

57010280


Watie, Stand, 1806-1871 --Fiction.


United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

PZ7.K255 / Ri

813.54