A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter, credited to Alice Turner Curtis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A YANKEE GIRL AT FORT SUMTER, by ALICE TURNER CURTIS. Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising, and things start to change. Through these changes, Silvia gets to know the world better: from Estrella, her maid, she starts to understand what it is to be a slave, from her unjust teacher she learns that not all beautiful people are perfect, and from the messages she carries to Fort Sumter she learns what is the meaning of danger. However, this is a lovely book, written mostly for children.(Summary by Stav Nisser)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
• Author credits: Alice Turner Curtis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 3:52:46

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• children
• civil war

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 1:00
2. 01 - Sylvia — 13:42
3. 02 - A New Friend — 11:48
4. 03 - Sylvia in Trouble — 10:05
5. 04 - An Unexpected Journey — 11:59
6. 05 - Estralla and Elinor — 8:43
7. 06 - Sylvia at the Plantation — 19:57
8. 07 - Sylvia Sees a Ghost — 8:32
9. 08 - A Twilight Tea-Party — 12:04
10. 09 - Troublesome Words — 9:55
11. 10 - The Palmetto Flag — 12:20
12. 11 - Sylvia Carries a Message — 11:55
13. 12 - Estralla Helps — 7:28
14. 13 - A Happy Afternoon — 8:35
15. 14 - Mr. Robert Waite — 12:55
16. 15 - Where is Sylvia — 11:03
17. 16 - In Danger — 9:49
18. 17 - A Christmas Present — 13:16
19. 18 - Great News — 8:56
20. 19 - Sylvia Makes a Promise — 9:28
21. 20 - Two Little Darky Girls — 11:57
22. 21 - Fort Sumter is Fired Upon — 7:21

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