![]() ![]() At first Johnny takes advantage of his captor's kindliness, but ultimately he becomes friends with Cush and even saves his life. ![]() Instead, he and the family's team of mules are captured by Blue Coats even worse (to him), the soldiers are black, and the youth suffers the ignominy of taking orders from a former slave his own age, Cush Turner. But a few months after Pa's death, Johnny undertakes a dangerous mission to bring food into besieged Richmond-and maybe avenge his father's honor. When Pa is wounded in action in 1864 and comes home to die, he extracts a promise from Johnny, the book's 14-year-old narrator, to stay on their farm in Virginia and look after the family. The Collier brothers ( My Brother Sam Is Dead ) here paint a strong, affecting picture of the Civil War era, of the grueling work and privations of the home front as well the chaos and carnage of the battlefield. ![]()
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