Jesse Bowman A Union Boy's War Story.
- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, Inc, 2008.
- 160
- Historical Fiction Adventures .
At the age of seventeen, Jesse Bowman of Chicago joins the Union Army to fight in the Civil War, having only a romantic notion of what war is all about, but once he enlists he learns about both the tedium of daily life as a soldier and the hardships and cruelty of battle.