In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
- ISBN10 0836826426
- ISBN13 9780836826425
- Publish Date 3 December 2005 (first published 1 September 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 June 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Gareth Stevens Publishing
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Pages 148
- Language English