Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco; 1994. Hardcover (Ch-PIC)

In a true story, Pinkus Aylee, a black Union soldier, finds Sheldon Curtis left for dead and carries him home to be tended by his mother, but when the two boys attempt to rejoin the Union troops, they are captured and sent to the Confederates' Andersonville Prison.

For readers in grs. 3-5