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The Judas Field : a novel of the Civil War
by Howard Bahr
In 1885, haunted by his devastating memories of the Civil War, Cass Wakefield journeys from his Mississippi hometown with his childhood friend Alison, a dying woman, who persuades him to accompany her to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her brother and father, a quest that reawakens Cass's vivid recollections. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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The Spymistress
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison. (historical fiction).
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The Tinsmith by Tim BowlingSeptember 17, 1862. Anson Baird, an assistant surgeon in the Union Army, is on the front line of what will come to be known as the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, the Battle of Antietam. Anson finds himself fighting alongside a slave named John. Together, the two men survive, and Anson assigns John a new identity as "William Sullivan Dare" in the hope that it will free him. Twenty years later on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Anson and William are now fighting a new battle against the unscrupulous business ethics of the province's pioneer salmon canners. When William disappears under mysterious circumstances, Anson is left to wonder what has become of him.
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White Doves at Morning : a novel
by James Lee Burke
Despite their misgivings about "the Cause," Willie Burke and his best friends, three young men from New Iberia, Louisiana, enlist in the Confederate Army and head off to war, in a novel that reflects the events and personalities of the Civil War from a Southern perspective and is drawn from the author's own family history. Reprint.
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A Blaze of Glory : a novel of the Battle of Shiloh
by Jeff Shaara
Drawing on meticulous research and told from the perspectives of characters on both sides, a story inspired by the pivotal Civil War battle recreates the April 1862 surprise attack by Confederate forces on the Union Army. By the best-selling author of Gods and Generals. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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The Road from Chapel Hill
by Joanna C. Scott
The lives and destinies of three young Southerners from vastly different backgrounds--Eugenia Mae Spotswood, daughter of a failed aristocrat; Tom, a slave yearning for his freedom; and Clyde Bricket, a farm boy responsible for Tom's capture--intertwine in the Civil War South. Reader's Guide included. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Cain at Gettysburg
by Ralph Peters
The best-selling author of The War After Armageddon presents a reimagining of the pivotal Civil War battle from the perspectives of a Blue Ridge Confederate sergeant, a bitter survivor of the Great Famine in Ireland and a German political refugee.
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My name is Mary Sutter
by Robin Oliveira
Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C., to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home
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Blue Asylum : a novel
by Kathy Hepinstall
Arrested and declared insane for seeking justice for her plantation owner husband's slaves at the height of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy endures a lengthy institutional "rehabilitation" under the eye of a pompous superintendent
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A Separate Country : a Story of Redemption in the Aftermath of the Civil War
by Robert Hicks
A tale inspired by the life of Confederate general John Bell Hood is set in post-Civil War New Orleans and follows his tragic struggles with disabling war injuries, his marriage and 11 children, and his battle with yellow fever. By the best-selling author of The Widow of the South. Reprint. A best-selling book. 100,000 first printing.
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Charleston : a novel
by John Jakes
Follows the experiences of the aristocratic Bell family from the American Revolution, through turbulent antebellum years, to the Civil War, during which they harbor dark secrets and jealously guard their privilege and power. Reprint.
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Enemy Women
by Paulette Jiles
Follows Adair, the daughter of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks, who is wrongly accused of enemy collaboration by the Union militia, as she falls in love with her interrogator and embarks on a perilous journey to find her family
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The Widow of the South
by Robert Hicks
A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man with a hardscrabble past, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers. A best-selling first novel. Reprint
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Cold Mountain : a novel
by Charles Frazier
Inman, an injured and disillusioned Confederate soldier, embarks on a harrowing journey home to his sweetheart, Ada, who herself is struggling to run the farm left her at her father's sudden death
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The First Assassin : a novel
by John J. Miller
Colonel Charles Rook strives to protect President Lincoln from an elusive assassin who has managed to slip into Washington D.C., and a runaway slave is the only person who knows the killer's identity
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