West to Freedom: A Story of Friendship (J. Arthur Moore- JUV) Type:Paperback Coupled with Paul Taylor’s insightful

Coupled with Paul Taylor’s insightful editorial notes and annotations

Ottens is the first major biography of Rawlins in over a century and traces his rise to assistant adjutant general and ultimately Grant's secretary of war

When the Union later tried to capture the temporary sand fortifications of Battery Wagner (protecting Charleston) and Fort Fisher (protecting Wilmington) they employed similar tactics but with disastrous results

The Southern percussion six-shot (cap and ball) revolver

and sacrifice have made up and sustained our collective memory

West to Freedom: A Story of Friendship (J. Arthur Moore- JUV) Type:Paperback Coupled with Paul Taylor’s insightfulWhen Thomas Reynold's best friend, Daniel Russell, a slave by birth, was in danger of being taken from his kindly owner and sold by a heartless bank owner, Thomas and his pa devised a dangerous plan to help Daniel escape westward into Indian Territory. Set during the early days of the Civil War, in the spring of 1862, in the northwest corner of Arkansas, "West to Freedom" is the story of that journey and the dangers encountered along the way.