She's Just a Little Amish Girl

A Gettysburg Novel

By: David Bachman

Narrated by: Tania Mannion

After a chance encounter with an Abolitionist, Rebekah is obsessed by a desire to end slavery. But as a young Amish Girl living on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she feels hopeless to do anything about it. Although she feels loved by her Amish family, she believes she has a higher purpose. But her protective father commands that she not interact with the non-Amish world around her. In his view, what happens outside their tight-knit farming community is none of her concern. But her life, and the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg, the decisive battle of the Civil War, changes when the Confederate Army suddenly descends on her farm. She overhears their plans to attack Gettysburg and decides she must alert the Union Army of their intentions.

She sneaks out of her home under the noses of the Confederate sentries and makes her way toward Gettysburg. But can she get past all the Confederate pickets guarding their camps? And if she does, how can she convince the Union Army to believe her? Most importantly, will she ever see her Amish family again? Rebekah is unprepared for her mission and the horrors of war. Can she find the inner strength to accomplish her goal of ending slavery?

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A former teacher of young adults, hi. E. Seventh and eighth graders.

Hard to suggest a place to start with this book. As I read about the Spangler farm, I can walk that ground in my mind because I have done it a number of times. I’ve been in the barn. I’ve been in the summer kitchen. I’ve lived in a tent there and I have discussed medical attention in the Civil War with groups of people there., Both young and old. I think if you are 13-year-old you can read it for it’s value and put yourself in their place. Both male and female. If you are an adult reader, who’s reading this preparatory to a trip to Gettysburg be sure you take your family to the Spangler farm. Be sure you take a map with you so you can show them where a little round top is where the cops of trees is. While you’re there, the author suggestion of taking one of the national Park guides in your automobile as well worth your consideration. If you cannot take your family there as the young ones read this book be sure you have a map available so you can show them where these things happened. I’m sure there are pictures of the Spangler farm somewhere on the Internet, so be sure you look at a few of those it is the same house. It is the same summer Kitchen. It is the same barn. Those are the same fields where the living in the wounded and the dead were gathered side-by-side. There is also an interesting connection between General Armistead and one of the commanding union generals… I’ll let you do a Google search on that one share the connection with your family especially your children and when you are at the Spangler farm, you might also want to visit the site of the school house and talk about the intertwining circles of history