Description: In this novel set during the Civil War, 16-year-old Jeff Bussey has long anticipated joining the Union Army. As Jeff takes part in the war's western campaigns, he is captured by the Confederate forces led by Stand Watie, a Cherokee India...
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Synopsis In this novel set during the Civil War, 16-year-old Jeff Bussey has long anticipated joining the Union Army. As Jeff takes part in the war's western campaigns, he is captured by the Confederate forces led by Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian. In order to hide the fact that he is a Union spy, Jeff volunteers to join Watie's rebel army and is thus able to discover who is smuggling Union rifles to the Confederates. Winner of the 1958 Newbery Medal.