Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks

At a glance

Author

H. Irving Hancock1868–1922

Genre

Adventure

Readers

Middle grade

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 3 h 9 min at 250 words a minute, or 5 h 5 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

Words in the text

47,292

Chapters

24about 1,971 words each

Dialogue

44%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

11.9 words

Vocabulary

416 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgbook record

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

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