Title: Joseph Schwartz's story
Description: Joseph doesn't want his privileged classmates at the Academy to know he's a scholarship student form a working-class family. Or that his parents are immigrants. And he certainly doesn't want them to know he's a Unionist--not when they all hope that Maryland will secede and join the Confederacy.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, History, Fiction
Places: United States, Baltimore (Md.), Maryland, Baltimore
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, Riot, 1861