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The widow of the south Cover Image Book

The widow of the south

Hicks, Robert 1951-2022 (Author).

Summary: Based on true events the story follows the saga of Carrie McGavock, a lonely Confederate wife who finds purpose transforming her Tennessee plantation into a hospital and cemetery during the Civil War. Carrie is mourning the death of several of her children, and, in the absence of her husband, has left the care of her house to her capable Creole slave Mariah. Before the 1864 battle of Franklin, Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest commandeers her house as a field hospital. In alternating points of view, the battle is recounted by different witnesses, including Union Lt. Nathan Stiles, who watches waves of rebels shot dead, and Confederate Sgt. Zachariah Cashwell, who loses a leg. By the end of the battle, 9,000 soldiers have perished, and thousands of Confederates are buried in a field near the McGavock plantation. Zachariah ends up in Carrie's care at the makeshift hospital, and their rather chaste love forms the emotional pulse of the novel, while Carrie fights to relocate the buried soldiers when her wealthy neighbor threatens to plow up the field after the war.

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  • ISBN: 0446500127
  • ISBN: 9780446500128
  • Physical Description: print
    426 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Warner Books, 2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-421).

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Subject:
McGavock, Caroline E. Winder 1829-1905 Fiction
Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864 Fiction
Plantation owners' spouses Fiction
Plantation life Fiction
Cemeteries Fiction
Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865 Casualties Fiction
Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865 Hospitals Fiction
Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction
Williamson County (Tenn.) Fiction
Genre:
Biographical fiction.
War fiction.

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  • 73 of 77 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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