Bull Run Book Report

In the book,”Bull Run”, it tells the story of multiple people’s perspectives in the American Civil War. Reading the book, I learned a lot about the horrors of the Civil War and what it was like trying to get into military and what it was like being in the military. In the book, there was a character named Gideon Adams who was black, and tried getting into the military. Normally, black people wouldn’t be allowed to join the military, but his skin was just light enough to get into the military, but only by hiding his hair. He had to hide his hair throughout his whole military career so he wouldn’t be kicked out. Another thing I learned/realized is how gruesome the civil war was. In the book it describes awful scenes such as limbs being severed