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A review by heididt19
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa M. Klein
3.0
Two Girls of Gettysburg is about two cousins, Rosanna and Lizzie. At the beginning of the book they both live in Gettysburg. Rosanna is originally from Virginia but is living with her sister Margaret. Margaret does not agree with her parents ideas about slavery and such and that is why she moved away, while Rosanna still clings to her traditional Virginian ideas. Lizzie is more unionist but becomes fast friends with Rosanna anyway. When they start enlisting for the civil war in Gettysburg Lizzie's father joins. The only consolation that Lizzie's family has is that they will still be able to get by with her older brother Luke running the family butcher shop, but when Luke runs away to join the army in the night what will they do? Soon after Rosanna runs away to Virginia. She quickly marries John Wilcox, a former beau, and he joins the Confederate army. Rosanna follows him and becomes a field nurse. John dies of dysentery but after a brief pause for mourning Rosanna resumes her work. Lizzie is entrusted with Rosanna's scrapbook where she learns all of her deepest secrets. Meanwhile Lizzie is struggling to run the family butcher shop with Amos, the hired African American man. They soon have to hire Martin Weigel because she knows they are being cheated. They receive news that her Father has been captured by the confederates. Amos reveals that he has a wife in slavery in South Carolina that he can buy back for a thousand dollars that he has saved up. He goes on a journey to free her. Lizzie starts falling in love with Martin Weigel. But will her family ever be reunited, will this war ever end, and why would Rosanna do such things?
I enjoyed this book very much. I thinki it is interesting because you get a view of both viewpoints on the war. You see that each side has it's struggles and each just really wants the war to end. This book made me think about which side of the Civil War I would have been part of, I had always imagined myself on the Union's side but have decided since then that it would really depend on which part of the country I had been raised in. I am not saying that I couldn't believe in union Ideas if I lived in the south or vice versa, I am just saying that the ideals of where I lived would probably be routed more deeply. I would recommend this book to someone else because it has an interesting way of narrating the book and it is full of history or if you like, there is a bit of romance between Lizzie and Martin.
I enjoyed this book very much. I thinki it is interesting because you get a view of both viewpoints on the war. You see that each side has it's struggles and each just really wants the war to end. This book made me think about which side of the Civil War I would have been part of, I had always imagined myself on the Union's side but have decided since then that it would really depend on which part of the country I had been raised in. I am not saying that I couldn't believe in union Ideas if I lived in the south or vice versa, I am just saying that the ideals of where I lived would probably be routed more deeply. I would recommend this book to someone else because it has an interesting way of narrating the book and it is full of history or if you like, there is a bit of romance between Lizzie and Martin.