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Tillie Pierce
Teen Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg
By Anderson, Tanya
- ISBN
- 978-1-4677-0692-6
- Publisher
- Twenty-First Century
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Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | History
Anderson uses Pierce's memoirs to render a vivid account of the fighting that unfolded around 1863 Gettysburg. The fifteen-year-ol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on June 1, 2013
Tanya Anderson intersperses portions of then-fifteen-year-old Tillie Pierce’s diary with summaries and other pertinent information, making for an immediate, relatable read. Useful definitions of certain words are unobtrusively included in the diary, and the details and syntax evoke both the place and time in which it was written: “Fences had d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
