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The Widow of the South

2005-08-30 Fiction
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Release : 2005-08-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 437/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Widow of the South by : Robert Hicks

Download or read book The Widow of the South written by Robert Hicks. This book was released on 2005-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more than 1,000 were laid to rest.

The Widow of the South

2011-10-31 Fiction
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Release : 2011-10-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 591/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Widow of the South by : Robert Hicks

Download or read book The Widow of the South written by Robert Hicks. This book was released on 2011-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee, 1864. On a late autumn day, near a little town called Franklin, 10,000 men will soon lie dead or dying in a battle that will change many lives for ever. None will be more changed than Carrie McGavock, who finds her home taken over by the Confederate army and turned into a field hospital. Taking charge, she finds the courage to face up to the horrors around her and, in doing so, finds a cause. Out on the battlefield, a tired young Southern soldier drops his guns and charges forward into Yankee territory, holding only the flag of his company's colours. He survives and is brought to the hospital. Carrie recognizes something in him - a willingness to die - and decides on that day, in her house, she will not let him. In the pain-filled days and weeks that follow, both find a form of mutual healing that neither thinks possible. In this extraordinary debut novel based on a true story, Robert Hicks has written an epic novel of love and heroism set against the madness of the American Civil War.

Widow of Gettysburg

2013-04-24 Fiction
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Release : 2013-04-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 396/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Widow of Gettysburg by : Jocelyn Green

Download or read book Widow of Gettysburg written by Jocelyn Green. This book was released on 2013-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all who have suffered great loss of heart, home, health or family; true home and genuine lasting love can be found. When a horrific battle rips through Gettysburg, the farm of Union widow Liberty Holloway is disfigured into a Confederate field hospital, bringing her face to face with unspeakable suffering—and a Confederate scout who awakens her long-dormant heart. But when the scout doesn’t die, she discovers he isn’t who he claims to be. While Liberty’s future crumbles as her home is destroyed, the past comes rushing back to Bella, a former slave and Liberty’s hired help, when she finds herself surrounded by Southern soldiers, one of whom knows the secret that would place Liberty in danger if revealed. In the wake of shattered homes and bodies, Liberty and Bella struggle to pick up the pieces the battle has left behind. Will Liberty be defined by the tragedy in her life, or will she find a way to triumph over it? Inspired by first-person accounts, Widow of Gettysburg is second book in the Heroines Behind the Lines series. These books do not need to be read in succession. For more information about the series, visit www.heroinesbehindthelines.com.

A Separate Country

2009-09-23 Fiction
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Release : 2009-09-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Separate Country by : Robert Hicks

Download or read book A Separate Country written by Robert Hicks. This book was released on 2009-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures. Robert E. Lee promoted him to major general after the Battle of Antietam. But the Civil War would mark him forever. At Gettysburg, he lost the use of his left arm. At the Battle of Chickamauga, his right leg was amputated. Starting fresh after the war, he married Anna Marie Hennen and fathered 11 children with her, including three sets of twins. But fate had other plans. Crippled by his war wounds and defeat, ravaged by financial misfortune, Hood had one last foe to battle: Yellow Fever. A Separate Country is the heartrending story of a decent and good man who struggled with his inability to admit his failures-and the story of those who taught him to love, and to be loved, and transformed him.

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

2010-09-08 Fiction
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Release : 2010-09-08
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by : Allan Gurganus

Download or read book Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All written by Allan Gurganus. This book was released on 2010-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the twentieth century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence," Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Lucy’s story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy striper. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a marvel of narrative showmanship and proof that brilliant, emotional storytelling remains at the heart of great fiction.

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