Ever wonder what happened after the Civil War is over? How people get on with their lives? This book is all about that. Ginny is telling the story through her diary. Ginny's father is having a hard time finding a job and Ginny thinks she can get a job to help. She does find a job as a dresser in ...
Ten-year-old Virginia Dickens, along with her father, older brother Jed, and Jed's wife Jane Ellen, have left Gettysburg to move to Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1864. Jed hopes to become a newspaper reporter, but instead finds himself in a dull, low-paying job setting type. The family finds th...