Silent Runs the Creek: Two Bare-faced boys March to Sharpsburg at Antietam Creek to Face the Bloodiest Day's Battle in the Civil War

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Two young Confederate soldiers from Virginia march from the Shenandoah Valley to the Seven Days Battle at Richmond and to Antietam Creek---the bloodiest single day's battle of the Civil War. Lang, 19, a well-to-do physician's son and Zeb, 16, a poor mountain boy, become friends and the book traces the evolution of their friendship through the horrors of war for these two ordinary foot soldiers. Under General Thomas J."Stonewall" Jackson, they fight in the Battles of Manassas, Gaines Mill, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill and finally at Sharpsburg (Antietam). As the war rages on, they begin to question what they are accomplishing by fighting.So confident at the beginning, the burden of war has now added deep worries and scars to their young minds and bodies. The confrontation seemed so right in the beginning and now so uncertain and confusing to them. Cast in one of America's world-changing historic events,each boy tried to muster his courage.