Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith
Wars, 1862-1865Child soldiersIndians of North AmericaJuvenile fictionHistoryFictionNewbery MedalCivil War, 1861-1865
The story of Jeff Bussey, a farm boy living in 1861, who joins the Union army and goes on an important mission to discover how Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee Rebels are receiving repeating rifles from northern manufacturers.
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Book data: Open Library