Charley Skedaddle
Charley Skedaddle
Charley Skedaddle
Patricia Beatty
During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Historical Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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About a boy from New York City who joins up in the army as a drummer boy. He picks up a gun and shoots a Confederate and then "Skedaddles."

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