Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most...
American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Author:Gurganus, AllanSummary:
- Author:Whitman, WaltSummary:
Presents the author's memoranda of the Civil War, written on the spot. It is a moving portrait of men at the limits of their endurance, of the ravages of war, and the cruel waste of lives.
- Author:Rudolph, PennySummary:
It’s 1861 in New Mexico Territory, and the Civil War is about to have a startling impact on Matty Summerhayes. Matty is struggling to develop a horse ranch to make enough money to return to the East. A stranger dies in her barn with a...
- Author:Saunders, GeorgeSummary:
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical...
- Author:Blackford, Charles MinorSummary:
Charles Minor Blackford, an aristocrat from Virginia, enlisted in the Second Virginia Cavalry at the start of the American Civil War. During his tour of duty, Captain Blackford kept constant correspondence with his wife, Susan Leigh...
- Author:Tawn Bergren, LisaSummary:
Laissant derrière eux leur foyer en Norvège, Elsa et Peder Ramstad décident d’aller faire leur vie dans un pays jeune en compagnie de leurs amis proches, dont Kaatje Janssen, une femme qui cherche un nouveau départ pour son couple et l’...
- Author:Atlee, GwynethSummary:
Charlotte Randolph is a beautiful, privileged southern woman who, through the circumstance of war, is coerced to spy for the Confederacy. But with a corral of tall, handsome Union troopers occupying her estate, she feels the lines...
- Author:Altsheler, Joseph A.Summary:
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat? Follow our hero, Dick Mason, into the Western campaign to find out.
- Author:Harris, C. S.Summary:
I killed a man the summer I turned thirteen ... Thus begins C. S. Harris's haunting, lyrically beautiful tale of coming of age in Civil War-torn Louisiana. Eleven-year-old Amrie St. Pierre is catching tadpoles with her friend Finn...
- Author:Mitchell, MargaretSummary:
First published in 1936, this book is a historical novel set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War. It tells the love story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
- Author:Sears, Stephen W.Summary:
Drawing on years of research, Sears focuses on the big picture, capturing the entire essence of the momentous three-day struggle while offering fresh insights that will surprise even the best-versed Civil War buffs, from Robert E. Lee's...
- Author:Meriwether, LouiseSummary:
Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it to the Union navy. Mango is made...
- Author:O'Connell, RobertSummary:
With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written....
- Author:Whitman, WaltSummary:
Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became the basis of two works: Drum-Taps, a...
- Author:Bell, Madison SmarttSummary:
Nathan Bedford Forrest was the most reviled and celebrated, loathed and legendary, of Civil War generals. We see Forrest off the battlefield, in the more hidden but no less telling moments of his life: wooing the woman who would become...
- Author:Barry, SebastianSummary:
Young Irish immigrant Thomas McNulty joins the US Army in the 1850s and with friend John Cole fights in the Indian wars and the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find their days vivid and alive, amidst the...
- Author:Olmstead, RobertSummary:
In the Civil War, Robey Child, only 14, must go to the battlefield to bring his injured father home. Clad in a homemade uniform--gray on one side, blue on the other--and riding a powerful coal black horse, Robey sets out on a journey...
- Author:Sibley-Jones, John Mark, Lucas, Marion B.Summary:
Fear and brutality grip Columbia, South Carolina, in the harsh winter of 1865 as General William Tecumseh Sherman continues his fiery march to the sea and advances on the capital city where secession began. John Mark Sibley-Jones's By...
- Author:Phillips, Michael R.Summary:
Before the war, Rosewood Plantation is large and prosperous. During the war years, women and slaves struggle to keep it running. But in the bloody days following the Northern victory, a marauding band of Union soldiers ravages Rosewood...
- Author:Cole, AlyssaSummary:
An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes ... Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people-dreams that died...