Rodney The Partisan (Illustrated)

by Harry Castlemon

Overview

Rodney The Partisan is the second in the six-volume Civil War series. Rodney and Marcy Gray, hero of the first volume, attended Barrington Military Academy, but were on opposite sides of their allegiances leading up to the Civil War. Marcy was for the Union while Rodney, the rebel, vowed that if the "Lincolnites" attempted "subjugation" of the Southern States, they would be neatly whipped by the Confederacy. He is recruited into a militia group that becomes the Partisan Rangers, and experiences all the fighting he can stand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789517821339
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	07/23/2022
Series:	Civil War , #2
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 – August 22, 1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of stories and novels intended mainly for young adults. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for teens in the post-Civil War era, the golden age of young adult literature.

Fosdick once remarked that: "Young men don't like fine literature. What they want is adventure, and the more of it you can get in two-hundred-fifty pages of manuscript, the better fellow you are." Fosdick served up a lot of adventure in such popular book series as the Gunboat Series, the Rocky Mountain Series, the Roughing It Series, the Sportsman's Club Series, and The Steel Horse, or the Rambles of a Bicycle.