Explains the role that the Union and Confederate navies played in the Civil War and includes the fictitious story of a young U.S. Navy powder monkey caught in the middle of war. This children's book (ages 9-11) contains archival photographs, maps, and colored paintings. It also includes bolded vocabulary words with a glossasry and an index.
Children will be able to identify with the young, main character and learn about an important event in American history at the same time.

[This review was written by the author, Alvin Robert Cunningham] ( )