Dramatic story based on historical and sometimes fictional events and persons from Civil War history, 1862-63 in the Susquehanna River towns of Wrightsville and Columbia, Pa. The secret workings of the Underground Railroad, a drummer boy's tales of life in the 125th Pa. Regiment, the 1863 burning of the covered bridge spanning the Susquehanna River. (265pp. illus. Columbia Hist. Pres. Soc., 1993.)