US Civil War
Hearts of Stone
Editors' choice
Fifteen-year-old Hannah finds herself the head of her family when her Cumberland Mountain home is torn asunder by the ravages…
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman are universally recognized as the most distinguished Union officers of the American Civil…
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The title, a phrase from Lincoln’s 1861 inaugural address, haunts the brutal Civil War that followed. The phrase also describes…
The Judas Field
Living a sad, lonely and alcoholic life in Mississippi in 1885, Cass Wakefield is asked to accompany a widow of…
Scarlett Rules: When Life Gives You Green Velvet Curtains, Make a Green Velvet Dress
Advice books don’t really seem to have been Scarlett O’Hara’s thing. She never was all that good at taking advice,…
A Reason To Live
During the Civil War, Laurel Covey nurses young Confederate soldiers. In a journal, she records their dying words and wishes,…
Rebel Train
President Lincoln is on his way to commemorate the fallen on the battlefield of Gettysburg. In Richmond, William Norris, head…
War Drums
This is the second book in the Palmetto Trilogy, the first being Call To Arms. This series portrays how the…
Four Summers Waiting
The American Civil War is the setting for this story of the friendship shared by women of different temperaments and…
She Went To The Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War
Until relatively recently, Clara Barton, Belle Boyd, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth van Lew, and a very few others were the only…
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