Howard Bahr, The Black Flower.
After the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, a wounded rifleman searches the battlefield for his childhood friends.

Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter.
John Brown’s son Owen recalls his father’s fight for the abolition of slavery, from the Underground
Railroad to Bloody Kansas and the raid on Harper’s Ferry.

Cynthia Bass, Sherman’s March.
Sherman’s march to the sea is seen through the eyes of a Southern widow whose home is destroyed, a Union captain who idolizes his commander and Sherman himself.

Bernard Cornwell, Rebel.
Bostonian Nate Starbuck joins the Confederate Army as an act of rebellion against his father and
plays a crucial role in the First Battle of Bull Run. First of a trilogy.

Harold Coyle, Look Away & Until the End.
Two brothers separated by a tyrannical father join opposing sides and meet on the battlefield at
Gettysburg and again after the war.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage.
A Union soldier struggles with his conflicting emotions about the war in this classic tale.

Jack Dann, The Silent.
A Southern boy who witnesses the rape and murder of his mother by Union soldiers falls mute and wanders the battlefields as a silent witness to the horrors of war.

E. Randall Floyd, Deep in the Heart.
A young Georgia farmer joins the Confederate army with dreams of glory but as he progresses through many of the war’s major battles he longs only to return home.

Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain.
A disillusioned Confederate soldier avoids returning to battle by leaving the hospital before his wound is healed and encounters a variety of people on his long journey home to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

John Jakes, North and South.
The sons of two prominent families meet at West Point and find their friendship is tested as they end up on opposite sides in the war.

William Johnstone, Talons of Eagles.
Forced to choose sides, Jamie MacCallister joins the Confederacy and harries Union troops with his band of Marauders. Part of a series.

MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville.
The haunting and heartbreaking tale of the Confederate prison at Andersonville where 50,000 Union soldiers suffered, starved and often died because they refused to take an oath of allegiance to the South.

Bruce Lancaster, Night March.
During the failed Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid to free Union soldiers from Libby Prison, two Union
cavalry officers manage to escape and make an arduous trek to freedom.

David Madden, Sharpshooter.
A 13-year-old prisoner of war gains his freedom by joining the Confederates as a sharpshooter but is later haunted by the memories of those he killed.

Kirk Mitchell, Fredericksburg.
When two regiments consisting mainly of Irish immigrants face each other on opposite sides at Fredericksburg, their common national identity is forgotten in the ensuing slaughter.

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind.
The sweeping saga of a headstrong Southern belle who survives the war and the destruction of her plantation home.

William Safire, Freedom.
An in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the Lincoln Administration as the president and his men draft the Emancipation Proclamation and wage war on the South.

Duane Schultz, Glory Enough for All.
Grant and Lee’s armies are locked in a stalemate at Cemetery Hill when Col. Henry Pleasants and the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers come up with a daring plan to end the battle.

Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels.
The story of the four bloody and grueling days of the Battle of Gettysburg is told in vivid detail by Southern leaders Robert E. Lee & James Longstreet and their Northern counterparts Joshua Chamberlain & John Buford. Sequel is Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals.