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#tbt features Soldier's Heart: being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers by Gary Paulsen. This novella is a work of historical fiction set during the Civil War. Fifteen-year-old Charley Goddard lies about his age and enlists in the First Minnesota Volunteers with dreams of being a hero. Once on the battlefields however, the violent reality of gun battle and death stuns Charley. Yet, he must go on. Seeing battle after battle and being injured himself. Charley returns home at age nineteen changed in heart and soul. Neither his physical nor mental injuries heal, leaving him unable to work and wishing for release. An author's note explains that Charley Goddard really did exist but that certain events in his life were changed to fit the storytelling.
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