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Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers is a historical war novella by Gary Paulsen aimed at the teenage market. It is a fictionalization of the true story of a Read More..

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Description	Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers is a historical war novella by Gary Paulsen aimed at the teenage market. It is a fictionalization of the true story of a Minnesotan farmboy, Charley Goddard, who at the age of 15 enlisted in the Union Army in the American Civil War. Charley lied about his age to join the First Volunteers of Minnesota and was involved in combat at Bull Run and Gettysburg. He returned home traumatized and suffering from "soldier's heart" (Da Costa's syndrome). The Boys of War, Henry Mayer, The New York Times, November 15, 1998. Although some of the events and time sequences are not completely factual, the essential elements of the book's story are true.
Description	Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers is a historical war novella by Gary Paulsen aimed at the teenage market. It is a fictionalization of the true story of a Minnesotan farmboy, Charley Goddard, who at the age of 15 enlisted in the Union Army in the American Civil War. Charley lied about his age to join the First Volunteers of Minnesota and was involved in combat at Bull Run and Gettysburg. He returned home traumatized and suffering from "soldier's heart" (Da Costa's syndrome). The Boys of War, Henry Mayer, The New York Times, November 15, 1998. Although some of the events and time sequences are not completely factual, the essential elements of the book's story are true.

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Name	Soldier's Heart
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Authors	Gary Paulsen
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Genre	Historical War novel Civil War novel
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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Pages	128 (Hardback); 106 (Paperback)
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Media_type	Print
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Isbn	0-385-32498-7
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Oclc	38249375
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Publisher	Dell Publishing
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