Numbering All the Bones

The events in this book start in 1964 when Eulinda is 13. She is the daughter of a slave and a master, so she's of mixed race.The family lives near Andersonville Prison which is the notorious Southern prison. The book deals with how she is sort of family and sort of not. She is lucky that she has received a decent education, unlike most blacks of the time.

After the war is over there is an effort made to clean up Andersonville and to give proper burial to all the men who died there, both white and black. Eulinda becomes part of that and, through that, meets Clara Barton, who ended up founding the Red Cross.

It's a good book about a young girl trying to find just where she belongs in a very race-conscious society.

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