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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
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"Splendid-a distinctive clear-eyed perspective on a fresh corner of the Civil War." -Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain
"A wise and timely book." -Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena
Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart.
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In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the U.S. colored troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused...
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From the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill, an evocative, morally complex novel set in rural 19th century North Carolina, as one woman fights to keep her family united, her farm running, and her convictions whole during the most devastating and divisive period in American history, perfect for readers of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles.
Talk of impending war is a steady...
Talk of impending war is a steady...
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This classic short story of a Southern plantation owner facing execution by Union soldiers is "a flawless example of American genius" (Kurt Vonnegut).
Alabama planter Peyton Farquhar was loyal to the Confederate cause. Now, as the Union Army overtakes the South, he is brought to the edge of a railroad bridge-hands tied behind his back-sentenced to hang for attempting to burn down the bridge on which he stands. As he ponders the events both large...
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Excerpt: "It would soon be Christmas and Harry Kenton, at his desk in the Pendleton Academy, saw the snow falling heavily outside. The school stood on the skirt of the town, and the forest came down to the edge of the playing field. The great trees, oak and ash and elm, were clothed in white, and they stood out a vast and glittering tracery against the somber sky."
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"The Rock of Chickamauga," presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been "The Guns of Bull Run," "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of Stonewall," "The Sword of Antietam" and "The Star of Gettysburg." Dick Mason who fights on the Northern side, is the hero of this romance, and his friends reappear also.
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"The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run" and continued through "The Guns of Shiloh" and "The Scouts of Stonewall." The young Northern hero, Dick Mason, and his friends are in the forefront of the tale.
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"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"--
In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor,...
10) Coldiron
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Fulton Missouri residents Sarah and Ruth discover the story of Samantha Coldiron's flight from the man trying to kill her, and a series of mishaps in a quest for life-saving salt at the end of the Civil War led to a cache of gold that's never been recovered, as far as they know. In alternating chapters, Sarah and Ruth's breakneck journey to North Carolina in 1984 and Samantha's harrowing flight out of North Carolina trying to escape Frank Daniels...
11) Ivory Shoals
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In the tradition of Mark Twain and Cormac McCarthy comes this distinctly American, pulse-quickening epic from the acclaimed author of Citrus County and Arkansas.
"I opened John Brandon's new novel and fell hard. An adventure full of grit and wonder, far-flung and yet uniquely, specifically American. I hope I never recover."
-Daniel Handler, author of All The Dirty Parts, Bottle Grove, and Why We Broke Up
Twelve-year-old Gussie Dwyer-audacious,...
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Lester McGill is a rural youth from Scott County, Tennessee. He crosses into Kentucky to enlist in a Union regiment, the 4th Kentucky Infantry. During his service throughout the Civil War, he witnesses the decline and eventual collapse of the Confederacy. Through 4 years of war, Lester interacts with Southern civilians, free and enslaved, young and old, rich and poor, that deepen his understanding of the ongoing national crisis and concerns that find...
13) Blessed Is He
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Towards the end of the American Civil War in 1863, Sergeant Zack Jackson, a black Confederate soldier, wakes up after a battle in Virginia, in a field full of his dead comrades, and he sees a hand held up in the middle of all the dead bodies. On further investigation, a dying soldier hands him a wallet, with both monies, his home address, and the deeds of a map of his claim to a gold mine. He requests, with his dying wish, that Zack takes the contents...
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Experience the American Civil War as you never have before in this dark, gritty, not for the weak or faint of heart novel that tells the true-to-life stories of a farm boy, an aristocrat, and a slave, who all serve the Confederacy with just one goal in mind-survival.
Albert Lee Harris is desperate to get away from the farm and seek adventure in the war. He sneaks off to enlist in the Confederate Army, leaving behind his Unionist brother...or...
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1862: The Union holds Baltimore, but this city, with its southern attitudes and divided sentiments, is a port of enormous potential value to the Confederate cause.
Defending Baltimore is a man disdainfully called the "Black German." Branden Rolfe, a European revolutionary, fled the oppression of his home in Austria and now serves freedom as the city's Union Provost Marshal. When Rolfe learns of the Sons of Liberty, a secret group of secessionists...
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Eager to prove himself, John joins the cavalry of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a crafty, audacious, and well-known Civil War commander. But will John become disillusioned by the reality of war before he finds glory?
Riding off to war with a good friend and the idealism of youth, John Barrett soon finds himself under the command of the bravest, boldest, and most righteous commander of the Civil War.
Nathan Bedford Forrest terrifies his enemies but endears...
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A small group of good men and women left their comfortable homes in the east to travel to the American frontier. There they suffered unspeakable hardships; freezing weather, starvation, sleeping on the frozen ground all while fighting off Border Ruffians hired by the slave-holders to kill the abolitionists. They would not yield even when faced with charges of Treason for their actions. The President of the United States demanded that Kansas be a slave...
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In 1849, a young and determined urban family departs Chicago to make an incredible seven- hundred-mile trek across the plains of Illinois and hills of Missouri to settle in Indian Territory called Kansas. Challenged by storms and thieves, the Walker family completes their months-long trek with five children, four horses, and much resolve. They settle into their new home to establish a homestead in the tallgrass of Kansas. Vera had a hard life with...
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While shelves are filled with accounts of industry titans, politicians, and exalted military leaders, this is a tale of an estranged young man making his way in a hard, cold, and often cruel world. Escaping a dull future with little meaning, he follows the example of his childhood hero and comes west into the Kansas Territory to seek his fortune. He first joins a freighting company down the Santa Fe Trail and then returns to the turbulent "Bleeding...
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In Gone to Kansas, 1855, young Hiram Lockwood left a broken family and St. Louis to seek his fortunes on the frontier in Kansas Territory and on the Santa Fe Trail. In Kansas 1856, Hiram is shedding his greenhorn ways and gaining experience as a muleskinner and stage driver. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas," where a man could be shot for not being "on the right side of the goose." Surrounded by rogues,...
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