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Author
Series
Elm Creek quilts volume 17
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 342 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Facing radical changes in their roles and outlooks when the men in their lives join the Union forces, the women of Elm Creek Valley's quilting bee begin an agonizing period of waiting that is shaped by their husbands' military duties and their respective circumstances.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After marrying a Mississippi landowner in hopes of living a life of security, Varina Howell finds her expectations upended when her husband is appointed as the leader of the Confederacy.
7) Bitter trail
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996, c1962
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...
Author
Publisher
[Bethany House
Pub. Date
1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
320p
Language
English
Description
Reporter Corrie Belle Hollister is caught up in the tensions between North and South as the election of 1860 draws near and she works to help get Lincoln elected
11) The Dixie widow
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 9
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the conclusion of The Last Confederate, almost twenty-four thousand Union and Confederate soldiers had fallen on the field of battle at Sharpsburg, making it the bloodiest day of American history. Among the casualties for the South was Captain Vance Wickham, husband of Belle Wickham. She was a daughter of Sky and Rebekah Winslow, and now the tragedy of war makes its dreaded call upon the Winslow family. In The Dixie Widow, Belle Wickham's sorrow...
12) Chasing the sun
Author
Series
Land of the Lone Star volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate for help to run the ranch that her missing father recently acquired on the Texas plains, Hannah Dandridge forms an uneasy truce with William Barnett, who is desperate to regain his family's land--the ranch that Hannah is struggling to keep running.
Author
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
Refiner's fire volume Book 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War, Caroline Fletcher, the daughter of a wealthy slaveholding family, is drawn into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.
Author
Series
Civil War Western Theater Tetralogy volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant's successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant to command...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Cassie Kendrick runs away from an arranged marriage by disguising herself as a man and enlisting in the Union Army, and on the battlefields of the Civil War she meets photographer Gabriel Avery.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Placed in charge of a team of black scouts by a skeptical General David Hunter, Harriet Tubman devises the largest plantation raid of the Civil War and leads a fleet of gunships up the Combahee River in South Carolina in an attempt to free hundreds of slaves.
Author
Series
Bonnets and bugles volume 9
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Leah attempts to make Jeff jealous through her flirtations with Cecil, she creates problems for all, even as the Civil War draws to a close.
Author
Series
Bonnets and bugles volume 8
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
154 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Union supporter Leah Carter rejoins her Confederate friends, Jeff Majors and his father, when she brings Jeff's baby sister Esther to Richmond in 1864, where her friendship with Jeff begins to turn into something else as his father grows closer to Eileen Fremont, a young widow, and all of them must turn to their Christian faith for help as they face the risks of wartime.
20) Rifles for Watie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey cannot wait to join the Army and defend the Union against the dreaded Colonel Watie, but when he is assigned to infiltrate the enemy camp as a spy, he discovers the rebels are boys and men just like him, and he must then decide whether to betray his enemies or join them.