Red+Moon+at+Sharpsburg


 * At the beginning of the book India wasn't alive. She has telling a story about how her dad, Cy Moody found Calvin Trimble and he had a head injury. Ester and Micah (Trimbles slaves) were praying for Calvin for him to stay alive and get better. He did get better and the Trimbles were so thankful that they gave their slaves money and so land (Wells pg. ). India was born later and she loved school and liked learning. Her friend Julia didn't like school at all. She would rather spend her time doing something else. Julia Pardoe has one of the wealthier families and had life pretty easy, at least compared to other families like the Moody ’ s. The war between the North and the South is getting closer and closer to Berryville, Virginia. The Pardoe family thinks they need to get out of there and India wants her friend Julia not to leave. India ’s family isn’t wealthy enough to be able to move. So India is left with zero friends and a boring life. She no longer has classes now because her teacher is now fighting in the war. India starts to study with Emory, her uncle (Wells pg. 37-40). India’s mom wants her to study her scripture, but she thinks it is boring. ||


 * The Civil war was a fight about the United States being one. The South was becoming independent and the North did not agree. They told the South that they needed to come back to the Union, but the South wouldn't. Since they didn't they decided to have a war to settle this. I thought the war was based on slavery. That was just a minor part of the war. I didn't know that during the night since they couldn't see, they would just hang out and seem like there wasn't a war. I just would guess they fought the entire time during the night. It would just seem really weird for them to stop fighting like that. ||


 * I learned that The Emancipation Proclamation was to free slaves so the Union would have a little more of an upper hand than the Confederates . It only applied on the areas where the Union has taken control of, so plantations where the North has not taken into control would be able to keep their slaves and make them work (Himan). Another thing I learned that they would stop fight at dark. They would tell stories and have a fun time with other soldiers from their side (Gildehaus). Which is just odd to me, because a few hours earlier in that day they were firing at each other. They also would like to trade during the night and they would trade like they were good friends. They didn't even really make a big deal of it. ||


 * In this book I had some interesting ideas on things. Like in chapter 12, where mama was in bed when an angel walked by her and the wing of something most similar to an angel brushed her cheek (Wells pg. 114). I think it might be related when Pa shot and brushed his cheek so it looked like he died on the battlefield than camp fever. It would make him look weak if he died from the disease, but if he had a wound from a bullet he would look glorious. I would understand why he would want Cy to do that for him. I just don't see why Pa did it. I couldn't even do it if it someone I hated. It just wouldn't be right. ||


 * I really liked this book it had great detail and had some things you had to think about. It has fun to read because this has based on things that happened then during the war. You would honestly never really know what might happen next and it made me want to keep reading more. It just seemed amazing the things people would do back then like when India stole the money from a dead man's coat pocket and how they would react to it all. ||