Fiction titles about the Civil War or with the Civil War as a backdrop.
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Good Time Coming: A sweeping saga set during the American Civil War
C S Harris - Severn House
Format: Book
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"Harris tells a powerful story of war's destruction of property, people, hopes, and morals during the Civil War in Louisiana. This is top-notch historical fiction, thoroughly researched and vividly presented, revealing the Civil War in all its brutality. Publishers... |
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Wedded to War
Jocelyn Green - River North
Format: Paperback
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It's April 1861, and the Union Army's Medical Department is a disaster, completely unprepared for the magnitude of war. A small group of New York City women, including 28-year-old Charlotte Waverly, decide to do something about it, and end up changing the course of the war, despite... |
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Unholy Fire: A Novel of the Civil War
Robert J Mrazek
Format: Book
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John “Kit” McKittredge is a young federal lieutenant from Maine who is wounded terribly in one of the first battles of the Civil War. Still unfit for active duty after nine months in the hospital, he is recruited by an unorthodox colonel named Valentine Burdette to work in the provost... |
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Circle of Spies
Roseanna M. White - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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1865--Marietta Hughes never wanted to be a spy, but the family legacy of espionage is thrust upon her as the War Between the States rolls on. Unknown to her, the Knights of the Golden Circle--a Confederate secret society bent on destroying the Union her brother died for--has been meeting... |
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An Extraordinary Union
Alyssa Cole - Kensington
Format: Paperback
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"Richly detailed setting, heart-stopping plot, and unforgettable characters." - Deanna Raybourn, New York Times bestselling author. As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger,... |
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The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War
Jeff Shaara - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom 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... |
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A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
Jeff Shaara - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war's bloodiest and most iconic engagements... |
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Scarred: A Civil War Novel of Redemption
Michael Kenneth Smith - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book
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After fatally shooting the Confederate sharpshooter who killed his best friend, Zach Harkin's sense of revenge changes to deep remorse when he views the dead man's diary and photo. Haunted, suffering from post-traumatic stress, and unable to serve, he is mustered out of service.... |
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Manassas
James Reasoner - Cumberland House
Format: Book
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Manassas, by James Reasoner, is the first novel in The Civil War Battles series based on the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia. This initial volume describes the mood in the South prior to the outbreak of hostilities and follows one of the Brannon sons into the army and onto... |
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Bright Starry Banner: A Novel of the Civil War
Alden R. Carter - Soho Press; No Edition Stated edition
Format: Book
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“The fascinating story of a ferocious three-day battle, among the bloodiest ever fought on US soil. Six months before Gettysburg, there was Stones River, near Nashville, in which 44,000 Union troops and 37,700 Confederates hammered away at each other, savagely and unremittingly,... |
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Thieves of Mercy: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea
James L Nelson - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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Having survived the bloody Battle of New Orleans and the loss of his ship, Captain Sam Bowater is given new orders - to take command of an ironclad warship being built in Memphis, Tennessee. Bowater and his men are taken up river by 'Mississippi' Mike Sullivan, one of the wild,... |
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Gods and Generals
Jeff Shaara - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas "Stonewall"... |
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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Jennifer Chiaverini - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the extraordinary friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who won her freedom by the skill of her needle, and the friendship of the First Lady by her devotion. In Mrs. Lincoln's... |
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The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more... |
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Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
Format: Book
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Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades.... |
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