With+Every+Drop+of+Blood



Characters Johnny: A fourteen year old boy, who lives with his mother, brother and sister after his father dies at Cedar Creek. Cush: A Yankee who catches Johnny and takes him to a camp for prisoners who have been captured by the Bluecoats. Jeb: A friend of Johnny's who went on the wagon trip with him and died during it. Pa: Johnny's father who gets shot at Cedar Creek and comes home and dies. Ma: Johnny's mother Sam: Johnny's little brother Sarah: Johnny's little sister

Summary The book, With Every Drop of Blood, starts out when Johnny's father comes home from the war and dies a few months after. Johnny decides to go to war even hough he made a promise to his father that he would stay with his mother. Johnny thinks this would be a good way to make money, but ends up getting caught by a Yankee. The Yankees name is Cush and is going to take Johnny to a prison camp. Along the way Cush and Johnny become more friendly and Johnny and Cush have to run away together to avoid getting killed. Cush gets captured by the whites and is to be taken away as a prisoner. What will Johnny do without Cush? Could Johnny have possibly become friends with a Negro?! Will Johnny ever get back to his family before he gets killed in the war?

Important events ​Some true events that happened in the book were that the Union did actually win the Civil War. Also the fighting described in the book at City Point, Appomattox, Petersburg, and the other places that the war was fought in was as it happened in the actual war. Also the events in the book that were in the Shenandoah Valley happened that way in the actual war in various locations. Additionally, the numbers of war dead is factual. During the civil war a lot of killing occurred and many Americans died for a cause they believed in anti abolitionism.