The Root Cellar

By: Janet Lunn

She’s a twentieth-century girl in a nineteenth-century world!

Words you should know!

New York

• State in USA• New York during the American Civil War

(1861–1865) was a bustling American city that provided a major source of troops, supplies, equipment and financing for the Union army.

Oswego

• City in New York• Five companies of the Forty-eighth Regiment

New York State Militia were located in Oswego city.

Syracuse

• City in New York• A lot of Civil War history took place here

Albany

• City in New York• Capital of New York

Poughkeepsie

• City in New York• It has Civil War monuments

Petersburg

• City in Virginia• Butler’s leading elements crossed the

Appomattox River and attacked the Petersburg defenses on June 15

Washington D.C.

• City in Maryland• Capital of the Union Nation

Grand Central Station

• Station in New York City• A railroad terminal at 42nd street and Park

Avenue

Civil War

• War against north and south• After four years of bloody combat that left

over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves began.

Cold Harbor

• Battle during Civil War• Battle was fought from May 31st 1864 to June

12th

Rose Larkin

Susan Morrisay

Will Morrisay

Summary

It looked like an ordinary root cellar, the kind of place where you’d store canned goods and winter vegetables. If twelve-year-old Rose hadn’t been so unhappy in her new home, she probably never would have fled down the stairs to the dark cellar. And if she hadn’t, she never would have climbed up into another century , the world of the 1860’s and the chaos of the civil war. There she makes her first friends-and they desperately need her help!