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African Americans Fiction American Civil War (1861-1865) Confederate States of America History Fiction Fugitive slaves Fiction Large type books Slavery Fiction Soldiers Fiction United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile fictionWhitney, Phyllis A.
Summary: In 1861 seventeen-year-old Abbie Garrett, living on Staten Island with her Southern mother and Yankee father, finds herself drawn firmly into the growing conflict between the North and the South with the arrival of her cousin Lorena from Charleston and the return from Atlanta of the two McIntyre brothers, the elder of whom has always had a special place in Abbie's heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHILeslie, Tonya
Summary: "Addy Walker escapes a Southern plantation during the turbulent Civil War. Meet Addy as she and her mother make a daring journey from slavery to freedom in 1864. Addy's story is sure to engage young girls as they learn what it was like to be a girl during the Civil War in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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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 HALBurke, 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: CD FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BURShaara, 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 Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015Burke, 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: Thorndike Press 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURHummel, Maria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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Summary: The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1966
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALPorter, Connie Rose
Summary: After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1993
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PORPriest, Cherie.
Summary: Maria Isabella Boyd's success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRILauer, Amanda
Summary: "The Civil War rages around her, yet Brigid McGinnis has her life planned out. That was, until she stumbles across an unconscious Confederate soldier on her father's property. A blow to the head stole Dominic Warner's memory. The beautiful fraulein who nurses him back to health steals something even more important--his heart. For political and societal reasons, Brigid and Dominic must go their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Full Quiver Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUSmith, 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 SMIOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet--and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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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 PERWalter, 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 WALWatkins, Steve
Summary: When a ghost from the Civil War--a teenage Union soldier--appears to Anderson and his friends, demanding to know what happened to his brother, it's up to Anderson, Greg, and Julie to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WATGreen, 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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Summary: In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history--Southern Abolitionists--and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict. On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCPAdams, Richard
Summary: Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADATurtledove, Harry.
Summary: It is 1943, the third summer of the new war between the Confederate States of America and the United States. CSA President Featherstone has miscalculated the North's resilience. In Ohio, where Confederate victory was once almost certain, Featherstone's army is crumbling, and reinforcements of uninspired Mexican troops cannot stanch a Northern assault on the heartland. The tide of war is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TURDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA 3Harris, C. S.
Summary: A story of coming-of-age in Civil War-torn Louisiana. This is a heart-wrenching story of loss and survival; of the bonds that form amongst women and children left alone to face the hardships, depravations, and dangers of war; and of one unforgettable girl's slow and painful recognition of the good and evil that exists within us all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2016
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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 Fiction, Call number: FIC SLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Slaughter 2016McClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "When Caleb and Justin Turner left to fight in the Civil War, Caleb owned Vivianna's heart. While Caleb neglected to write, Justin's passionate letters gradually won her heart. Caleb came home and Justin's letters stopped. Months later as Vivianna struggles with Caleb's proposal, Johnny Tabor brings Justin home and Vivianna's heart makes its choice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017