Rebel Boys: The War Comes To Tennessee

THE WAR IS COMING. In the quiet farmlands of West Tennessee, thirteen-year-old Nathan Elder is still a boy, working the fields beside his grandmother and dreaming of the day his father returns home from war. But the war is already closer than anyone wants to believe. When Nathan secretly rides to Jackson and enlists in the Confederate Army, everything changes. His grandmother refuses to let him face it alone, leaving behind the only home they have ever known to follow him into a world of marching men, fear, and uncertainty. As the army moves toward the Tennessee River, the reality of war begins to close in. Drums echo through town squares. Wounded men arrive in wagons. And the line between boyhood and manhood begins to disappear. Then comes Shiloh. In one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil, Nathan is forced to face something no child should ever see… or do. Rebel Boys is a powerful coming-of-age story about family, courage, and the cost of war, not told through generals and history books, but through the eyes of a boy who lived it. Read more