Tom Strong, Lincoln's Scout / A Story of the United States in the Times That Tried Men's Souls

A youthful scout from a family of like-named predecessors is drawn into a sequence of episodic adventures that intersect major mid-19th-century American events. He encounters abolitionist uprisings, a celebrated engine-house assault, presidential ceremonies, naval and land battles, capture and imprisonment with a daring tunnel escape, hazardous river journeys, campaigns through the South, and the pursuit that follows a presidential assassination. Meetings with prominent leaders and loyal companions accompany his military service and escapes, while recurring themes of courage, loyalty, and the clash between local life and national turmoil are conveyed in an action-focused, chronologically ordered narrative aimed at younger readers.