Historical novel from the Civil War series. The Star of Gettysburg is a complete romance, but it is also one of the series dealing with the Civil War, beginning with The Guns of Bull Run, and continued successively through The Guns of Shiloh, The Scouts of Stonewall, and The Sword of Antietam to the present volume. The story centers about the young Southern hero, Harry Kenton, and his friends. According to Wikipedia: Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 - 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction. Altsheler was born in Three Springs, Kentucky to Joseph and Louise Altsheler. In 1885, he took a job at the Louisville Courier-Journal as a reporter and later, an editor. He started working for the New York World in 1892, first as the papers Hawaiian correspondent and then as the editor of the Worlds tri-weekly magazine. Due to a lack of suitable stories, he began writing childrens stories for the magazine.
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