Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery

by Ray Anthony Shepard

Book Overview

Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary African-American Union soldiers in Civil War history--George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding.

Stephens and Gooding not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162979340X
• ISBN13: 9781629793405
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12