Download or read book A Dangerous Promise written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.