Rebecca Jo Plant

Rebecca Jo Plant is a historian at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America.

Drummer boy John Clem (left) and Robert Henry Hendershot, who claimed to be the celebrated "drummer boy of Rappahannock" (right)

Why the Union Army Had So Many Boy Soldiers

A new book unearths the startling numbers behind underage enlistment during the Civil War

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