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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Shoulders, Michael, author.
Title: Crossing the deadline : Stephen’s journey through the Civil War / by
Michael Shoulders.
Description: Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, 2016. | Summary: Stephen,
an accomplished bugler in the town band, joins the Union effort in the
Civil War and endures trial after trial, from battle to Confederate prison
and the shipwreck of the steamboat Sultana, but through luck and fortitude,
Stephen survives.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015033876 | ISBN 9781585369515
Subjects: LCSH: Musicians—Fiction. | Soldiers—Fiction. | CYAC: United
States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.S558833 Cr 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015033876

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