My Brother Sam Is Dead is a story written that takes time during the Revolutionary War. It's narrated in first person by a character in the book named Tim Meeker. Tim has an unusua, yet seemingly common situation in which his dad, whom he respectively fears, and his brother, whom he looks up to and adore, both have different views on the sides of war. His brother Sam Meeker was a Rebel, one who was against the King and was a part of the soldiers that fought against him. His dad is a Loyalist, a person who stays loyal to the British King, but he also doesn't support the war and doesn't want Sam to go to get involved in the war. Tim is a bit pressured on who's side he should take when the fight between his dad and brother gets more serious and Sam runs away with the Brown Bess, the family's valued gun, to fight in the war. The family then endures hardship like other colonist families do as the war's impacts began to expand. Trading is beginning to get harder and the amounts of food and cattle is slowly shrinking. One day in the winter, Tim and his dad go to Verplancks Point, far from their house, to do their regular trading, when they meet up with cattle thieves or as they called themselves, cowboys. They made it safely to their destination but on their way back for home, his dad checks up ahead on his horse to make sure the cowboys weren't there and won't steal their trading goods. He always rode back to Tim until suddenly, he never shows up again. Tim being his first time all alone in a place unknown alone, let alone first time travelling, doesn't know what to do. Where'd his dad go? Will he ever hear from Sam again? Will Sam come back home? Can he man up and look after himself, his mom, and their shop? Will the title live up to his name? You'll have to read the book! By the looks of the book and the background of history it clings to, My Brother Sam is Dead isn't a book that would catch your eye and you'd pick to read, but the authors do a great job of making sure that the book is fun, cliff-hanging, yet educational at the same time. Tim's little-things adoring of Sam's galore of going into the war s what has inspired me to create this site on the uniforms that the soldiers on both side of Rebels and British wore.