Follows March, the father character from Little Women, as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War.

Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.

A collection of stories about a family of Quakers, the Birdwells, in Civil War-era Indiana.

The tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life.

At her father's death, Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. Amantha soon finds herself in New Orleans, where she spends the war years with a slave trader and then marries a Union officer and Emersonian idealist.

A parody of the fugitive slave narrative where the slave-poet Quickskill flees to Canada on a nonstop jumbo jet and Abe Lincoln waltzes through slave quarters to the tune of “Hello Dolly.”

The story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer who falls under the tutelage of the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia.

Headstrong midwife Mary travels to Civil War-era Washington, D.C. to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon.

A fictionalized account of the abolitionist's life and accomplishments.

The love story between Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln--from Springfield to the White House and the Civil War to the tragic end--told from the point of view of Mary Todd.

Five siblings of an established Confederate Virginia family learn that their father is the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln.

The story of a young private of the Union Army who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice.

A fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862.

An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the twentieth-century civil rights demonstrations.

The story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered-and 14,000 died-and of the people whose lives were changed by the grim camp where the best and the worst of the Civil War came together.

Historical novel based on the letters of Myron Winslow Robinson.

Non-partisan views of the war through many short story vignettes.

Traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves.

Little Onion finds himself with John Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859-one of the great catalysts for the Civil War.

A story about the differing motives for secession and war, and evokes the suspicion and battered consciences of both North and South

An intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during the 1840's.

Tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War.

Abe Lincoln's son, Willie, finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance.