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It’s been twenty years since Cass Wakefield returned from the Civil War to his hometown in Mississippi, but he is still haunted by battlefield memories.

Set towards the end of the American Civil War, this book follows General Sherman’s epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major maneuvers to bring the war to its conclusion.

Traces the events surrounding the pivotal battle of August 1863, during which Lee and Grant both cross the Susquehanna and make decisions that culminate in the war’s outcome.

Just prior to the battle of Shiloh, Union General William T. Sherman stumbles upon a young boy calling himself Jesse Davis, who claims that he has come to serve Sherman, but others begin to suspect that Jesse is not who he says he is.

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, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers.

When Robey Childs’ mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the
battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.

In an Appalachian community haunted by the dark legacy of a Civil War massacre, young Travis Shelton struggles to overcome the corruption of the present and the dark influence of Carlton Toomey, a local marijuana grower.

A spy for the Confederacy, Susanna LeGrande, after seducing the enemy, Union sailor Rear Admiral Mitchell B. Longley, destroys his life in the name of the South and, discovering that she is in love with him, must find a way to undo the damage she has done.

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.

The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families — three generations of African-American men — and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond.

A tale based on the events of the controversial 1864 Fort Pillow Massacre traces the Confederacy attack against the mixed-race Union garrison at Fort Pillow, a battle led by ruthless cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Born in 1844 in upstate New York as the child of ardent abolitionists, Liberty Fish finds his life influenced also by his grandparents, Carolina slaveholders, a conflict that he struggles to resolve by enlisting during the Civil War.