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JOHNNY Johnny is 14 years old and he has to take care of his family since his dad is in the Civil War. Even though his father is in the war fighting for them he too wants to fight, but he has to stay with the family. He, his mom, his brother and sister pray every night that there father will come home. One day his father comes home up in a wagon injured. He had gotten hit by a minieball in the chest. It will take him a while to recover so Johnny stills has to take care of the whole family now icluding his father. They all hope that he will get better, but it keeps getting worse. A month later Johnny finds himself lying next to his fathers bed. Johnny makes a promise with him that he will not go into war. Father said that he had fought enough for the both of them. After he says that father dies and Johnny is still left to care for the family. Months later Johnny has to go into town to deliever some cinder to a store. He bumps into his friend Jeb. Jeb says that some people were planning to make a wagon train to bring food to Richmond. Since this payed well Johnny thought he should take the ofer. But he doesn't know if this is going againest his fathers wishes. After talking to his mother he decided to go with the wagon train. As he is going down the trail a group of Yankees attack them. His best bet is to run into the woods.

CUSH / PRIVATE TURNER Cush was a slave for Marse Stevens ever since he was little. He would wipped day in and day out. One day his father had gotten sold off to another slave owner. Then Cush was alone except for his mammy. Since his father got sold he thought he wanted fight againest slavery. Then maybe Cush would be able to see his father again. When you enroll yourself into war you need to have a full name which Cush did not have. So he took the last name of a former slave who fought for his freedom named Turner. This man was like a role model to him. Private Turner fights under the command of Colonel Marshell wiht a group of Yankee's. He sees the wagon train ahead of him and charges at full speed towards them. Then Private Turner spots a runaway going into the woods.

PLOT As Johnny is trying to make a run for it a Yankee is following close behind. Johnny hits a dead end and the Yankee that is attacking him is Private Tuner. He hold Johnny hostage and is demanded to take him up to City Point. But along with ride are two other wounded soliders. One of them happens to be Jeb. As they make their way on the wagon train Johnny gets bored and starts to read his psalms. Private asks him what he is doing and gets jealous when he sees he can read. At their next stop the two of them make a agreement that if Johnny teaches Turner to read then he will get food in return. Johnny agrees with this because he thinks it is a great way to become friends with the Yankee and then try to escape. But he is also going to try and teach him all of the wrong things. This is because he doesn't believe that slaves should be able to read. Every minute they stop riding the wagon Private wants a reading leason. Then Johnny would try and get off topic about what they were reading. This would work most of the time but sometimes he would want a lesson and Johnny would teach him the wrong things like in Abe Lincoln's speach says, "Four score and seven years ago, our fort fighters broke...." But the right saying is, "Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought..." After they have a lesson and the wagon train went on one of the wounded men can not take it any longer and he dies. Private doesn't care about this man and just wants to have another reading lesson. But once again the lesson gets off topic. They start to talk about how Private Turner enlisted into the war. He says that to get into war you need to have 2 names but Turner only had one because he didn't know his really family. So he added a last name to Cush and from that day on he was called Turner. Their conversation slowly died down, and then they notice that Jeb is gradually dying, and in his last words he asks Johnny that when he burries him to put a couple of big rocks on top of him so that the dogs wont dig him up. A couple of seconds later Jeb passed away. This gives Johnny an idea of how to make a run for it. He tells the guards on duty that he wanted to bury his friend. They let him go and Johnny takes the wagon and mules, to pretend to bury Jeb. As soon as the guards see that he has gone too far they chase and shoot after him. After that he gets nervous, so he puts an act on to pretend that he was burrying Jeb. He comes up with an excuse, and he finally really burries Jeb. The next morning Cush and Johnny have a long talk regarding the incident the night before. Even with this they get off topic. And it turns out that Cush as been to the White House and to the north too. Suposivally President Lincoln was standing on the steps of the White House watching them pass by. But Cush doesn't know if that is all so true. They talk about this for a while then they make their way back up to City Point by nightfall. Once Johnny sees what it is like he wants to get away. He tries to get an escape plan in his head. As always his plan has failed. He is taking prisioner and is going to be sent up north soon. The next morning when Johnny was about to be sent up north, Cush saves him by saying that his is the only one that can ride the mules. That he tryed once and they wouldn't even budge. When he finds out that he is staying, Johnny looks around City Point a little more. Johnny finds Yankee uniforms and thinks that it is a good idea to put one on. He goes to find Cush and he demands him to take it off. If the Colonel finds him whereing it, he will think he is a spy. But when Johnny goes back to get his clothes they are gone. And is force to go into battle with the Yankee uniform. Everyone is heading towards the battle field. Johnny can not believe that he is there and going againest his fathers orders. When Captain Bartlett comes through to see how everything is going, he relizes that Johnny is not in his crew. And does mistake him for a spy. Just as Captain is about to hurt him a fire goes off and Bartlett says that he will get him later. There is one bomb after another after another. One of those bombs hit Cush as he is running. He is wounded on his leg and head. So he doesn't have to die there Johnny takes his bodying into the wagon and runs off before Captain Marshell can get at him. The two of them make themselves down the road to a barn to hide just in case Marshell is following them. Three soldiers end up following them but known of them thought of looking inside the barn. They wait in the barn for Cush's leg to heal. They were trying to find a way to losing there Yankee uniforms because if anyone saw them they would shoot them. During the chaos Johnny had forgotten all about the speech that he was teaching Cush about. But Cush didn't forget. Johnny thought that it would be a good idea to come clean with everything. He told him that he taught him all wrong. Cush was so mad that he limped away outside of the barn still in his Yankee uniform. He started to cross the street, just as he did this some Confederate soldiers come down the road on their horses. Once they spoted him they attacked him. Johnny tried to help by saying that it was his slave and just put him in that uniform so he wouldn't be naked but they stole Cush any ways. Johnny still went along the road to try and get home. As he was doing so he found a place where there was just a battle. The people that died were wearing farmers clothes so Johnny stole two outfits. While he was doing this he came across a man that had just gottens shot in the lungs and wasn't looking to good. Johnny gave him some water so it wouldn't be such a hard death. By the time Johnny left with the clothes he needed the man had died. And every other place he had gone by where there were people he would ask them if they had seen a group of Confederates with a slave. He wanted to find Cush so bad. Finially he found him but the guards wouldn't let Johnny take him. He had to find Colonel Marshell and ask him if he wanted to get Cush back. When Johnny finally found him he was sleeping and had to wait till morning. But when Johnny woke up Colonel Marshell had already left. Out of it he gets a nice breakfast for the people in the house that Colonel Marshell was sleeping in. As Johnny is eating he over hears the owner of the house talking to someone. He hears that the war is about to end. Johnny rushes out of the house to go and try to get Cush back. He nagocated with the two solieders that were on guard. Just in time too because they were about to kill him. As he was doing so Union and Confederate soldiers came down the street together as one. The soldiers drop Cush and run. The two of them get to be together and everyone can live without slavery.