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\Chapter 3, Toward Manassas/ charley sees his first coloreds as the soldiers go through Maryland.He notices how poor they are, and for the first time, he really thinks about slavery and what it would be like.
\Chapter 2, Fort Snelling/ Charley learns how to march and carry a rifle as good as any man. They do not get to shoot too much, as there is a shortage of amoo...
\CHAPTER 1, JUNE 1861/ Charley Goddard is a boy of fifteen in Minnesota,He hears talk of forming a volunteer regiment which could reach one thousand men.He has never been more than five miles from his hometown of Winona, but he is determined to join and become a soldier. They pay $11 a month!!
Soldier's Heart
\Chapter 4, Bull Run / As the men march across an open field toward the enemy's position, the head of the man next to Charley is immediately blown off, and an officer's horse is killed by the same cannon shot.
\Chapter 8, Winter / Meat is scarce or nonexistent. Charley and several others are detailed to provide beef for the men, but there are no cattle. The doctor directs them to the Rebel horses captured that morning.
\Chapter 5, Night / Charley and the other soldiers find themselves in a grove of trees, recovering from the battle. Officers move through the men telling them that they did a good job, but Charley and the others know it is a lie.
Chapter 6, Farming The men go to Washington and set up camp. There they are given proper uniforms of heavy blue wool with a black leather belt. Charley is paid for the first three months of his service, thirty-three dollars.
\Chapter 7, Town Life / Returning to the camp in Washington, the soldiers spend three months, finally building log shelters and trying to keep warm and dry as winter approaches. They even name some of the pathways in the camp for towns in Minnesota.
\Chapter 10, June 1867 / The war is now over for Charley. He is back home in Winona, Minnesota, but he is not the same Charley. He thinks constantly of the war, beginning to end. He has time to think because he is disabled and can barely walk.
\Chapter 9, Gettysburg/ Charley finds himself at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on top of a meadow flowing down to a line of trees where the Union army is gathering for an attack a mile away.
-Kara Luna'<33
