The Littlest Rebel

Virgie gives Sally Ann a beard of blue moss and declares her the fearsome Blue Beard. But as the children play, Virgie’s mother has a more troubling question: could Uncle Billy be leaving them?

Edward Peple’s novel opens in spring 1864, at a plantation twenty miles below Richmond, where the war has reached even the quietest corners of home. Seven-year-old Virgie makes a game of old stories, while her mother tries to fashion a dress from scraps and keep her fears to herself. The Carys’ animals and provisions have been taken for the army; the house grows poorer, and the shadow of hunger falls across the family. With the Confederacy weakening and soldiers near, can Virgie’s bright spirit—and her mother’s courage—hold out against what the war is bringing?

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