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Violence
Some
Moderate; Civil War battles depicted from a journalist's perspective
Language
None
Period prose; no strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Wartime camp life includes alcohol
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the psychological cost of war filtered through patriotic framing
What this book is about
Charles Carleton Coffin was one of the most celebrated Civil War correspondents, and this semi-fictional account follows a young Union soldier from enlistment through the major campaigns of the war. Coffin's first-hand observation lends the narrative an immediacy unusual for patriotic war literature of the era, though his perspective is firmly pro-Union and celebratory of Northern character.
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Civil War battle violence
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