Bolden, Tonya

Crossing Ebebezer Creek

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

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Elliot, L. M.

Annie, Between the States

Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, an idealistic, poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers, hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War rages around her family's Virginia home.

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McMullan, Margaret

How I Found the Strong

Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.

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Moss, Marissa

A Soldier's Secret

Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.

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Reasoner, James

Gettysburg

As the two eldest Bannon sons, Will and Mac, see action during the Battle of Gettysburg, their family awaits word of the fate of their two sons as rumors spreads about the large number of casualties.

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Shaara, Jeff

A Blaze of Glory

A fictional account of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, told from the perspectives of participants on both sides, recreates the April 1862 surprise attack by Confederate forces on the Union Army at Shiloh.

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Wells, Rosemary

Red Moon at Sharpsburg

Finding courage she never thought she had, a young Southern girl musters the strength and wit to survive the ravages of the Civil War and keep her family together through it all

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