Summary Of Harold Keith's Rifles For Watie

I read the book Rifles for Watie. It was written by a man named

Harold Keith. The book has twenty-five chapters and three hundred thirty-

two pages. It was the winner of the Newbery Medal. The Horn Book said

“This . . . should hold a place with best Civil war fiction for young people.”

The book starts off when Jefferson Davis Bussey is sixteen. The

Civil War is starting to break out. He couldn't wait to leave his Kansas farm

and defend the Union against Colonel Watie, leader of the dreaded Cherokee

Indian rebels. Jeff soon learns that there's more to war then he had thought.

Its not just honors and glory. As an infantry soldier, he had to march for

miles, day after day, exhausted, half starving, and sick.

Jeff became