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Book Review of Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers

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"...Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers" - A Novel of the Civil War. Author's notes: "This is partly a work of fiction. Charley Goodard really existed. He enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers when he was fifteen, lying about his age, and fought through virtually the entire war. ... But in all respects everything in this book happened, either to Charley or to men around him." RL 5-6