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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sunflower Sisters is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real : As we roamed the neat brick streets of Charleston, past filigreed fences and palmetto trees, the atmosphere so gentle and refined, we never dreamed we'd stumble headlong into hell. Mother, my sister Georgy and I had come from...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of coming-of-age in Civil War-torn Louisiana. This is a heart-wrenching story of loss and survival; of the bonds that form amongst women and children left alone to face the hardships, depravations, and dangers of war; and of one unforgettable girl's slow and painful recognition of the good and evil that exists within us all.
Author
Series
Beacons of hope volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"In 1865, Caroline has tended the Windmill Point Lighthouse in Michigan since her father's death, but her home and livelihood are threatened when a wounded Civil War veteran arrives to take her place."--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 562 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a first installment in a trilogy inspired by the Siege of Vicksburg that follows Ulysses S. Grant's successful crossing of the Mississippi in May 1863 and his reluctant decision to surround Confederate soldiers and citizens in a ring of Federal entrenchments to starve them into surrendering.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point. Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter-until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brought to the New World from Ireland, young Joseph Forsyth is soon betrayed by his alcoholic father and separated from his beloved family. As he grows older, he finds his kind nature exploited by others--including an alluring young woman named Lucy--until he gets swept away by the conflict that divides a nation. After the bloody siege of Petersburg, Joseph floats in and out of consciousness at a Union army hospital. Keeping vigil at his side is...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 21
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
12) Sarah's ground
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
142 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1862, in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the Civil War progresses, eleven-year-old Daria and her twin brother, Andrew, begin to suspect that one of their mother's boarders is a Confederate spy.
14) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
An unabridged edition of nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott's novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War, which also includes discussion questions and activity ideas for reading groups.
Language
English
Description
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food, animals...