Question

Urgent!!! Worth 45 points. Why does the author tell the story from Joby's point of view? What does this add to our understanding of the events and the reality if the Civil War? “Drummer boy of shiloh.”

Answer 1

The author probably told the story from Joby's point of view to tell us, as readers, what Joby experienced from his own perspective. Doing this adds more knowledge to our understanding of the events and the reality of the Civil War.