Then Marched the Brave

“I would gladly give my ain useless lad,” Janie McNeal says—never knowing her sixteen-year-old son is listening above her. For lame Andy, her words make the night feel more perilous than the British soldiers outside.

It is the summer of 1776 near McGown Pass on Manhattan Island, where the king’s men prowl and neighbors wait anxiously for Washington’s next move. Andy has a lame leg, but not the cowardice his mother imagines; when he hears that Sam White has been shot on his way home, the grief and shame he has kept inside become impossible to bear. In the moonlit dark, he seeks his friend Ruth, who sees a way his disability might help him serve. What chance is waiting for a boy everyone thinks cannot be brave?

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