My Brother's Keeper My America 1

by Mary Pope Osborne

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  About the Author

  Mary Pope Osborne says, "I'll never forget my trip to Gettysburg. Cemetery Hill seemed so strangely peaceful. Everything quiet, except for the wind in the grass and the

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  of the crickets. It helped me understand how shocking the battle must have been to the people of that town."

  Mary Pope Osborne is the award-winning author of more than forty books for children, among them the best-selling Magic Tree House series,

  Adaline Falling Star,

  and Dear America:

  Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan.

  She lives with her husband, Will, in New York City.

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  Acknowledgments

  The author would like to thank her editor, Amy Griffin, for her wonderful support. She would also like to thank Diane Garvey Nesin, Jean Feiwel, and the Gettysburg Visitor Center.

  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following:

  Cover portrait and frontispiece by Glenn Harrington.

  Page 101 (top): Slaves on plantation in South Carolina, 1862 by

  H.P. Moore, New-York Historical Society. Page 101 (bottom): General Robert E. Lee on his famous horse,

  Traveler, Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pennsylvania. Page 102: Battle of Gettysburg, ibid.

  Page 103 (top): A soldier in the Civil War, Library of Congress. Page 103 (bottom): The children of a Union soldier, The

  J. Howard Wert Gettysburg Collection. Page 104 (top): A hospital in the Civil War, Atlanta History

  Center. Page 104 (bottom): Abraham Lincoln, Brown Brothers, Sterling,

  Pennsylvania. Page 105: People of Gettysburg proceeding to dedication of

  National Soldiers' Cemetery, Library of Congress.

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  For Gail Hochman, with the deepest gratitude.

  While the events described and some of the characters in this book

  may be based on actual historical events and real people, Virginia

  Dickens is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary is a work of fiction.

  Copyright © 2000 by Mary Pope Osborne

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available

  ISBN 0-439-15307-7 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0/0 01 02 03 04 05

  Photo research by Zoe Moffltt

  Book design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

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  First edition, June 2000