Private+Captain



Characters: Danny Seldomridge-Bens cousin Aunt Mavis-Dannys mom Captain- Reubens dog Mavis the cow Ben Reynolds- brother of Reuben Reuben Reynolds- Older brother of Ben This story is about a boy going into the war to find his brother and bring him home to help with his mom.

The character Reuben Reynolds is Ben Reynolds older brother. In this book Ben and his cousin Danny Seldomridge travel to Gettysburg to find Reuben. On there way they have many challenges including running into runaway soldiers and even cows. Captain, Reubens dog, finds a stray cow and brings it to Danny and Ben. All four of them travel across Susquehanna river, by swimming! When they were trying to cross the Susquehanna River, they didn't cross at the low part of the River so they were being swept downstream, then the Rebels found them and took them out of the river and to their camp. Everyone knew there was going to be a big battle coming, so Ben was trying to find Rueben before the "big battle."

The author, Marty Crisp came from Maryland, a border state between the north and south during the war between the states. The history was traced back through her father, Charles Morris Tibbels, and her grandmother, Etta Beall Tibbels.

setting: This book is in the writen in the year of 1836 and throughout the upper Eastern coast states. Ben, Danny, Captain, and their new cow travel though a bunch of different cities.