| Title |
Author |
Description |
| Watchfires |
Louis Auchincloss |
|
| Sherman's March |
Cynthia Bass |
Includes as one of the major characters
a southern widow displaced by Sherman's March. |
| High Hearts |
Rita Mae Brown |
A young wife disguises herself as a
soldier to follow her husband in the Confederate army. |
| The President's
Daughter |
Barbara Chase-Riboud |
|
| Freedom's Banner |
Teresa Crane |
|
| Alice's Tulips |
Sandra Dallas |
|
| Cold Mountain |
Charles Frazier |
Features a woman on the homefront
coping with the deprivations of the war. |
| Thin Moon and Cold
Mist |
Kathleen O'Neal Gear |
|
| Oldest Living
Confederate Widow Tells All |
Allan Gurganus |
|
| On Secret Service |
John Jakes |
|
| Beloved Enemy |
Al Lacy |
Centers around a romance between a
Union soldier and a young woman who is a spy for the Confederate army. |
| In the Fall |
Jeffrey Lent |
|
| Must the Maiden Die |
Miriam Grace Monfredo |
Monfredo has a series of historical
mysteries preceding and during the Civil War, featuring librarian Glynis
Tryon. One of the earlier books features the Underground Railroad
- North Star Conspiracy. |
| From Fields of Gold |
Alexandra Ripley |
|
| Daughter of Twin
Oaks |
Lauraine Snelling |
|
| The Christmas
Letters |
Lee Smith |
|
| Fair and Tender
Ladies |
Lee Smith |
|
| Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
This is told in the form of letters,
diary extracts and even very early dictating machine transcripts. |
| True Confessions |
Janet Tashjian |
|
| The Adrian Mole
Diaries |
Sue Townsend |
|
| These is my Words |
Nancy E. Turner |
|
| The Train to
Esteline |
Jane Roberts Wood |
About a teacher's first year in a
little Texas town about a hundred years ago. Charming and full of
quirky folks. |
