Gentle Annie

"Gentle Annie" is the best biography that I've ever read! If you want to get this, don't wait. It's the best for really sensitive people though. It touches people. It also makes them cry a bit, but in a good way. I loved this book.

This is the life story of Annie E., the civil war heroine. It tells of her whole life, starting from a happy 10 year old. She had to grow up heartbreakingly fast when her father became ill. She baked and sold bread and worked as a nurse. When her father died, and her marriage failed, she got a job as a nurse. Then she joined the army, to do what she loved- be a nurse. Of the 20 girls she was recruited with, Annie as the only one left when they went to war. She braved death in the face, caring for soldiers of both armies. She worked among the blood and gunpowder and death, but never once lost her goodness. At the end of the war, she received a medal for bravery.

If you're into war stories and are looking for a differnt view, try this one, the story puts you into the front line of battles and introduces you to real live characters like Abe Lincoln, and the spy who was truly a women Sarah Emma Edmonds. The story takes you to lots of major battles,and shows you the horrors of the Civil War

It's a really good book and I found it to be interesting.It's a very dramatic book and gave me alot of details to better help me understand what it must of been like to be of that time in history.

This book is really great. I think that what Annie did was so courageous and selfless. days and years she threw herself into the battlefields to nurse wounded soldiers. she deserves the medal of honor. what strikes me though is that she is a true story who really did exist. I will say one thing, and that is that i wasn't really interested in that kind of thing before, like the fictional civil war stories and such. but since i read, 'annie' i have been and now i'm even working on a book like that, too. it's called, "Promises: A Civil War Tale, great book...kudos to the author of "Annie"