I am just finishing up"Ride the Dappled Mare" by Joan Eliz!. Moody Baker !. Really good!. Need to start another one!. I am from the south!. I have read most but thought there may be a new one out!. ThanksWww@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Judas Field- I just read it and it's very well written!. B&N!.com is currently have a clearance sale on it for $1!.99 it's normally $25!. There are other Civil War novels on the sale list also!.http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/;_ylt=!.!.!. Red Badge of Courage Trilogy: The Killer Angels Gods and Generals The Last Full Measure Black Flower Enemy Women North and South Gone with the wind Mr!. Lincoln's Wars Cold Mountain Here is a link to a database listing other Civil War novels http://www!.uta!.edu/english/tim/civilwar/!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's fiction, but a fun read!. Harry Turtledove did an entire series of alternate history where the South won the war!. How Few Remain (1997) The Great War Trilogy: American Front (1998), Walk in Hell (1999), & Breakthroughs (2000) The American Empire Trilogy: Blood and Iron (2001), The Center Cannot Hold (2002), & The Victorious Opposition (2003) The Settling Accounts Tetralogy: Return Engagement (2004), Drive to the East (2005), The Grapple (2006), & In at the Death (2007) He also did a fantasy, reverse history about the Civil War!. Sentry Peak (2000) Marching Through Peachtree (2001) Advance and Retreat (2002) also!.!.!. The Guns of the South (1992) A Sci-Fi/Alternate History, and Fort Pillow (2006) - Historical retelling of the Battle of Fort Pillow!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a classic, as is Gone With The Wind (but I'm sure you already know about that)!. North Vs!. South is another epic series, and if you want a little variety look up Harry Turtledove's series about an alternate history where the South won the Civil War!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "The Last Living Civil War Widow" This might not be the exact title because I read it a long time ago!. It's part fiction, part nonfiction as I remember, and they made a TV movie about it!. I read it in the '80s, but obviously it made an impression on me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Good for you!---I wish more people would learn more about the civil war so they would understand it was NOT about slavery-----it was about states rights to establish their own laws without federal interference-----yes slavery later on did become one of the issues but it was not what caused the civil war!.Www@QuestionHome@Com North and South by John Jakes Love and War by John Jakes Heaven and Hell by John Jakes On Secret Service by John Jakes The Killer Angels by Jeff Shaara Glorieta Pass by P!. G!. Nagle Lincoln by Gore Vidal These are the good ones that I remember!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I believe Cold Mountain is the title!. Nicole Kidman starred in the recent movie base on the book!. Margaret Mitchel's Gone With the Wind is the classic, of course!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Across Five Aprils!. :0)Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, how about Gone with the Wind!? It's a classic and it's engrossing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Gone with the Wind it's the bestWww@QuestionHome@Com |