This book offers insight into the bloody battle and how it effected the Thorn family. The Thorn family took care of the cemetery in Gettysburg. When the father goes to fight for the Union, Elizabeth, the pregnant mother, and her three young sons (ages 7, 5, and 3) along with her parents maintain the cemetery. After the Battle of Gettysburg, the mother along with her sons and parents, bury one hundred soldiers who died in the battle.
Includes the Gettysburg Address.
*Highly recommend.
*Borrowed from the library.
Reading Level: 4.6
I especially liked the end pages which display a pictorial map of the Gettysburg and surrounding countryside.
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