Backcountry fury
Subtitle: a sixteen-year-old patriot in the Revolutionary War
By: by Tony Zeiss
Publisher: Parkway Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boone, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781597124096
Subjects: South Carolina. Militia; Campaigns; South Carolina; Soldiers; Juvenile literature; Biography; History
Description: "This young adult story chronicles eighteen months in the life of sixteen-year-old Thomas Young during 1780-81. He lived and fought in the South Carolina backcountry during America's Revolutionary War. His remarkable story exemplifies sacrifice, courage, and determination in the pursuit of liberty and in the founding of a new republic"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: A gathering storm; title: Learning the ropes; title: First engagement; title: Into the fray; title: Up the mountain; title: Bloody Tarleton; title: A cavalry charge; title: My seventeenth birthday; title: Captured; title: Liberty or death; title: War makes beasts of men; title: Epilogue.