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African Americans Fiction American Civil War (1861-1865) Confederate States of America History Fiction FICTION / African American / Historical FICTION / Historical Fugitive slaves Fiction Large type books United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Veterans FictionShaara, Jeff
Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015Smith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "When Union soldier Caitlin McKae wakes up in Atlanta, the doctor believes she's been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. Hiding her identity, she accepts a job as governess for a rebel soldier's daughter. Both Union veteran and rebel soldier will test the limits of loyalty and discover the courage to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREWalter, Jon
Summary: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALHepinstall, Kathy.
Summary: "A best-selling novelist enlists her own sister to bring us the story of two Southern sisters, disguised as men, who join the Confederate Army--one seeking vengeance on the battlefield, the other finding love. In a war that pitted brother against brother, two sisters choose their own battle. Joseph and Thomas are fresh recruits for the Confederate Army, daring to join the wild fray that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPSlaughter, Frank P.
Summary: "Echoes of Distant Thunder is a breathtaking saga that begins with the crushing Union defeat on the final day of the Battle of Chickamauga and ends with a life or death confrontation between two sworn enemies in the virgin pine forests of Northern Michigan. This is not the kind of Civil War novel we have come to expect. This book shows us the war in stunning detail through the eyes of a twenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Slaughter 2011Slaughter, Frank P.
Summary: Will Castor serves in Battery D, 1st Regiment, Michigan Light Artillery, sending shells into the ranks of Confederate infantry whenever he’s ordered to do so. When his unit’s position is overrun at the Battle of Chickamauga, Will witnesses and commits ghastly horrors to survive the day. Separated from his army and incapacitated with a broken leg, he hooks up with a Confederate deserter who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLASlaughter, Frank P.
Summary: Two generations removed from Will Castor, the haunted veteran of the Civil War’s Battle of Chickamauga, the Castors have become a prominent family in the mining town of Ishpeming, Michigan. When a conflict even greater than the War Between the States breaks out in Europe, two of the Castor boys answer the call: John, a shy, studious young man whom the other Marines call “Teach,” and Matt, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Slaughter 2016Brown, Taylor
Summary: "Set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward. Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURShaara, Jeff
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shaara 2015Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her wartime actions threatened not only her reputation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIHaley, My.
Summary: In 1862, Virginian slave Mary Louvestre risks certain death during the Civil War to smuggle the plans for modifications to the ironclad CSS Virginia to the Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALIreland, Justina
Summary: "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- derailing the War between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Negro and Native Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IREWang, Daren
Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANCrane, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CRAReasoner, James.
Summary: After finding Lucille Farrell, Cory Brannon considers supplying the South with food and weapons, while his brothers enjoy a brief visit home before returning to fight with the Confederate army in Fredericksburg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REAReasoner, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REAShaara, Jeff
Summary: The Civil War did not end quietly. It climaxed in a storm of fury that lay waste to everything in its path. The Fateful Lightning brings to life those final brutal, bloody months of fighting with you-are-there immediacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAMiller, Linda Lael
Summary: "Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to do his duty and help save the Union, no one anticipates he will not return. Caroline gets news that he is wounded and has been taken to Washington, DC, with his regiment, and so she must find her way there and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2019Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Summary: "Set during the [era after the Civil War] and exploring the next chapter of history--the end of slavery--this ... story of love and healing is about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERBurke, James Lee
Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BURHummel, Maria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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Summary: Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, struggles with difficult moral questions when he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who has been plotting an assassination attempt against President Lincoln.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009