Characters
Plot Summary
Charley Golddard
- 15 year old boy.
- He wants to be a man so he joins the army.
- Experiences horrors when he was in war .
- Becames smart and experienced in war.
- Broken down mentally and physically and died at the age of 23 years old.
Background
- Charley Goddard is a teenager born and raised in Winona, Minnesota.
- He volunteers to join the army to fight i the civil war.
- Charley learns how to be a soldier in Fort snelling.
- Then he went to Bull Run, Virginia to another army camp.
- Charley fought in the his first Battle (Battle of Bull Run) all the people around him died. The Union lost badly in this battle.
- Charley fought in two other wars that were unnamed.
- Charley ends his army career with the Battle of Gettysburg.
- After the Civil War, Charley breaks down both mentally and physically.
- He is sent back to Winona and dies at age of 23.
Ma
- Charley's mother
- she was against him going in he war.
Nelson
- A new recruit that meets Charley in Washington.
- was shot in the stomach in a battle and died.
- The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. The war had its origin in the factious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. Four years of intense combat left 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers dead.
- The Battle of First Bull Run highlighted many of the problems and deficiencies that were typical of the first year of the war. On 15 April 1861, the day after South Carolina military forces attacked and captured Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring an insurrection against the laws of the United States. Earlier, South Carolina and seven other Southern states had declared their secession from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America
Battle of Gettysburg
Setting
Battle of Bull Run
- The novel begins in Winona, Minnesota, the home town of the main character Charley Goddard.
- Fort Snelling, where Charley joins the army.
- Manassas, Virgina, where Charley boards the train to go to the army camp.
- Then to Bull Run, virgina, where Charley fought his first battle.
- Gettysburg, Pennsylania, this is Charley's last battle.
Winona, Minnesota's civil war veterans memorial park
Fort Snelling Army Camp
Soldier's Heart
By: Grey Paulsen
presented by: Myia Barr