"Oh Such cannonading on all sides, such shrieks and groans, such commotion of all kinds " wrote the teenaged Sue Chancellor, a Virginia planter's daughter, in May 1863. "We thought that we were frightened before, but this was far beyond everything. . . . Oh, the horror of that day "
Sue's reactions to the Civil War around her was only one of myriad responses to the conflict from children--boys or girls, black or white, slave or free, rich...