Critique my story please? 10 points, easy read!?

wow. this story is so far incredibly good. Are you sure you are an eighth grader? I only saw one misspelling and that was in the last paragraph when you said beings but meant begins. Your description and word choice give this narrative a very real feeling, almost like you are actually there in 1861. The only thing I would do differently is not say what the child is going to be because they had no way of knowing that back then. Also if this is half, you're going to have to make your story much longer if you want it to be as good as this piece of it.