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Civil War Historical Fiction
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Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry
Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.
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Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
by Sarah Bird
In 1864 Missouri, newly freed slave Cathy Williams makes the difficult decision to fight in the Army, disguised as a man, with the Buffalo Soldiers.
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March
by Geraldine Brooks
In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences.
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Fallen Land
by Taylor Brown
A couple races through the destroyed South, relying on the kindness of strangers and foraging from abandoned farms, as they flee a slave hunter, tracking dogs and ex-partisan rangers during the final year of the Civil War.
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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.
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The Beguiled
by Thomas Cullinan
Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?
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The March
by E. L. Doctorow
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war, in a richly textured, evocative historical novel that captures the full experience of the diverse characters caught up in the struggle.
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Black Cloud Rising
by David Wright Faladé
Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, must prove that his troops in the African Brigade are skilled and trustworthy as they raid the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers in the fall of 1863.
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Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who desperately works to revive a struggling farm.
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The Sentinels of Andersonville
by Tracy Groot
Three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with Andersonville Prison's atrocities and learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given.
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The First Lady and the Rebel
by Susan Higginbotham
Sisters Mary Todd Lincoln and Emily Todd Helm find themselves on opposite sides of history when the American Civil War divides the country and forces them to fight those they most love to defend their beliefs.
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
by Allan Gurganus
Lucy Marsden looks back on her long life and her experiences as the wife of a Civil War veteran, recounting the combat and the historical figures of the war years, as well as the hidden conflicts of domesticity.
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Sisters of Shiloh
by Kathy Hepinstall
Presents the stories of two Southern sisters, one a widow and the other who is in love with a soldier, who join the Confederate Army in the guises of men.
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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.
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Neverhome
by Laird Hunt
Follows the experiences of Ash Thompson, who becomes a folk hero after she abandons her farmer husband and disguises herself as a man to go fight for the South during the Civil War.
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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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Simon the Fiddler
by Paulette Jiles
Conscripted into the Confederate Army after nearly escaping the American Civil War, an itinerant fiddle player joins a ragtag regimental band playing for both sides of the conflict before falling in love with an indentured Irish governess.
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Sunflower Sisters
by Martha Hall Kelly
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey, an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday, travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
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The Secrets of Mary Bowser
by Lois Leveen
A slave to one of the wealthiest families in Richmond, Virginia, Mary Bowser, sent to Philadelphia to be educated, secretly joins the abolition movement to bring fugitive slaves to freedom--a cause that leads her to deceive even those who are closest to her as she engages in a deadly game of espionage to end slavery.
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Ghost Riders
by Sharyn McCrumb
Disguising herself as a boy to join the Union Army alongside her husband, Malinda Blalock raids the farms of Confederate sympathizers and promotes the efforts of governor Zebulon Vance, who would protect Appalachian interests.
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The Yankee Widow
by Linda Lael Miller
Protecting her child and farm at the height of the Civil War, a young widow faces difficult choices when she offers shelter to a Union soldier, a Southern rebel, and a pregnant fugitive slave.
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Redemption Falls
by Joseph O'Connor
Having escaped the Irish famine only to become embroiled in America's Civil War, Eliza sets out on a mysterious cross-country quest, while a poetess denies other suitors to take up with a mercurial revolutionary, and a rebel guerilla sets out on a brutal rampage across the West.
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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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The Smoke at Dawn
by Jeff Shaara
Follows the events of the summer of 1863 as the victorious Federal army loses Chattanooga before rallying against the forces of General Braxton Bragg.
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
The award-winning author of The Noble Hustle chronicles the daring survival story of a cotton plantation slave in Georgia, who, after suffering at the hands of both her owners and fellow slaves, races through the Underground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close behind.
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