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Civil War
- Aycock, Beth Smith. Round up a whirlwind.
- Fiction Aycock
- A historical novel taking place in Arkansas, Texas, and Mexico, and covering the years between 1830 and 1870, describes the effect of the Civil War on a family trying to settle the West.
- Gibbons, Kaye. On the occasion of my last afternoon.
- Fiction Gibbons
- The vanished world of the Old South is revealed in the story of Emma Garnet, as she moves from pampered plantation owner's daughter, through her discovery of the evils of slavery and work in military hospitals during the Civil War, to her final reconciliation with her feelings about the South.
- Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils.
- Fiction Hunt
- Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
- Jakes, John. Savannah, or, A gift for Mr. Lincoln.
- Fiction Jakes
- As Sherman and his army march from Atlanta to the sea in 1864, the charming old city of Savannah lies directly in their path, threatening the livelihood of widow Sara Lester and her twelve-year-old daughter Hattie, who struggle to save the family plantation, but when Sherman offers Lincoln the city as a Christmas gift, he finds himself on a collision course with young Hattie
- Killgore, James. The passage.
- Fiction Killgore
- Fifteen-year-old Mississippi schoolboy Sam Wood learns about honor, courage, and friendship while serving on a Confederate ironclad gunboat, the CSS Arkansas, in the early days of the Civil War.
- Olmstead, Robert. Coal black horse.
- Fiction Olmstead
- When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
Updated June 2008