This is the story of Sylvia, a little girl from Boston and her adventures in Charleston, South Carolina just before the start of the Civil War

Mary Dean is ten years old when she sails from Connecticut to Virginia and then journeys to her aunt's plantation near Bull Run, for a year's visit, the year being 1861. Mary is suspected of being a spy and is taken to a Confederate camp. She gets to meet President Davis and be of service to a Yankee soldier.

Berenice Arnold comes to the mountains of Tennessee from Vermont with her father and mother, that Mr. Arnold might regain his health. Berenice delivers messages to the northern army and is hailed as a hero, getting to meet General Grant.

Alice Turner Curtis (1860-1958) was an American writer of juvenile historical fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for The Little Maid's Historical Series (which comprises twenty-four books, starting with A Little Maid of Province Town). She has written at least sixty published books. She went to public schools in Maine and Massachusetts, but was also tutored privately. She was a Republican in 1936, and a supporter of women's suffrage. She was also a member of D. A .R. (Tea Party Chapter, Boston), and the New England Women's Club, Boston. Curtis was a salaried contributor to Youth's Companion. Although her earliest-known book (Marjorie's Way) was published in 1904, she had been in the literary profession by 1895 according to her marriage record.

Follow the experiences of Kathleen, a spiritied eleven-year-old in the days surrounding the eventful Civil War Battle at Gettysburg.