Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil War\'s Battle for Vicksburg.
She lives in the Kansas City area..
Her book Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy was a Booklist Editors\' Choice and an NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, among other recommendations.
Sibert Honor Book Award.
About the Author: Andrea Warren\'s noteworthy nonfiction has received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award as well as a Robert F.
I do not think a child could have passed through what I did and have forgotten it." - Lucy McRae, age 10, 1863 Period photographs, engravings, and maps extend this dramatic story as award-winning author Andrea Warren re-creates one of the most important Civil War battles through the eyes of ordinary townspeople, officers and enlisted men from both sides, and, above all, Three brave Children who were there. . . "Living in a cave Under the ground for six weeks .
Grant, only to find himself in the midst of battle, experiencing firsthand the horrors of war.
On the Union side, twelve-year-old Frederick Grant has come to visit his father, General Ulysses S.
Terrified townspeople, including Lucy and Willie, take shelter in caves - enduring heat, snakes, and near suffocation.
To hasten surrender, they are shelling Vicksburg night and day.
In 1863, Union troops intend to silence the cannons guarding the Mississippi River at Vicksburg - even if they have to take the city by siege.
Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil War\'s Battle for Vicksburg
