Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.

Two women--southerner Susanna Ashford and northerner Cora Poole--exchange letters throughout the Civil War, writing about the ordeal of a familiar world torn apart by tragedy, about books and art, about loss and longing, about their future and the future of their country, about love, about being a woman in nineteenth-century America, about friendship, and about the triumphant resilience of the human spirit.

Keith Carradine narrates the Public Television Edition of the Civil War Minutes documentary series, Gettysburg and Stories of Valor. This edition contains twelve episodes that began airing on public television stations in November 2004. Episodes include: Bravery at Gettysburg; Mystery at Devil's Den; Hallowed ground; Hancock the superb; Confederate General Lewis Armistead; The lost drum of Will Mayo; Our William is no more; Caught in the crossfire;...