In Brothers at War, James Hollar has created eight exciting short stories with Americaas Civil War as a background. Young readers will enjoy their journey through each story, beginning with a tale of four brothers whose loyalty to each other reaches beyond the boundaries of North or South. In aSharpshooter, a a Confederate sniper holds the power of life and death over a Yankee officer, who is only the flick of a finger away from meeting his fate. Also in this volume is the story of a soldier who yearns for the glory of battlea!until he experiences firsthand what war is really like. Read about Private Adam Tinker and his trust in a lucky rabbitas foot that always seems to work in his favor. Will it save him when he looks down the barrel of a loaded musket? In aA Question of Honor, a is keeping a promise more important than fighting the enemy? Read how a Union soldier and a Rebel become unlikely friends in aA Pouch of Tobacco, a and how one of them is faced with the hardest decision he has ever had to make. These and other stories await you in this absorbing volume of stories by the author of the Civil War novel Race to Freedom.