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	March : a novel Brooks, Geraldine. New York : Viking, 2005. As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Subjects Pulitzer Prizes. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Soldiers -- Fiction. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.

	White doves at morning Burke, James Lee, 1936- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2003. Subjects United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.

	The red badge of courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c1982. His most famous work, The Red Badge of Courage (1896), portrays the initial cowardice and later courage of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Subjects Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 -- Fiction. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Soldiers -- Fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. War stories.

	The march : a novel Doctorow, E. L., 1931- New York : Random House, c2005. In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Subjects South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Sherman's March through the Carolinas -- Fiction. Sherman's March to the Sea -- Fiction.

	Savannah, or, A gift for Mr. Lincoln : a novel Jakes, John, 1932- New York : Dutton, c2004. Georgia, 1864: Sherman’s army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path: the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies—attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie—struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the conquered city to President Lincoln as “a Christmas gift,” Hattie and the feared general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them. Subjects Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Fiction. Sherman's March to the Sea -- Fiction. Generals -- Fiction. Girls -- Fiction. Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Savannah (Ga.) -- Fiction.

	Enemy women Jiles, Paulette, 1943- New York : William Morrow, c2002. "For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri the War Between the States is a plague that threatens devastation despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley it is a nightmare seen at its most terrible on the day the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and dragging her widowed father away, beaten and bloodied. Left to care for two young sisters, Adair sees no road but the one that leads away, and they start out on foot into the winter mountains in search of a safe haven." Subjects Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Young women -- Fiction.

	In the fall Lent, Jeffrey. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. In the twilight of the Civil War, Leah, an escaped slave, discovers Norman Pelham, a wounded Union soldier who lies dying on a battlefield outside Richmond. After she nurses him back to health, Norman brings her to his family farm in Vermont as his wife, and they begin a family. Now the mother of three, and, however begrudgingly, accepted in the community, Leah travels back to the South of her birth and returns with a secret that threatens to destroy what she and Norman have created. Subjects African Americans -- Vermont -- Fiction. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Vermont -- Fiction.

	The glory cloak : a novel O'Brien, Patricia. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004. From childhood, Susan Gray and her cousin Louisa May Alcott have shared a safe, insular world of outdoor adventures and grand amateur theater -- a world that begins to evaporate with the outbreak of the Civil War. Frustrated with sewing uniforms and wrapping bandages, the two women journey to Washington, D.C.'s Union Hospital to volunteer as nurses. Nothing has prepared them for the horrors of this grueling experience. Subjects Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Fiction. Nurses -- Fiction. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care -- Fiction. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals -- Fiction. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Fiction.

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