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In 1861, young Mike Kelly, living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, enlists in the Second Kansas Infantry as a drummer boy alongside his best friend Todd Blakely. Their eagerness for glory is shattered at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in Missouri, where Todd is killed. Grief‑stricken, Mike travels to the front lines to keep a dangerous promise: to return Todd’s watch to his sister, confronting the horrors of war in his quest for honor and remembrance.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Joan Lowery Nixon
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