| Sehome High School Library Sehome High School Library 2/12/2001 Civil War Fiction F Allen Allen Merritt Parmelee. Johnny Reb. Longmans, 1952. F Beatty Beatty, Patricia, 1922-. Blue stars watching. New York, : W. Morrow, [1969]. Resentful at being sent to California with his sister to avoid the dangers of the Civil War in Delaware, thirteen-year-old Will is soon entangled with Rebel plotters and Union spies in San Francisco. F Borland Borland, Hal, 1900-1978. The Amulet. Lippincott, 1957. Quincy Scott joins a band of Southerners intent on reaching and fighting for the Confederate forces during the Civil War. F Burchard Burchard, Peter. Rat hell. New York, : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1971]. During the American Civil War, Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, was a place of confinement for captured Yankee officers. On the night of February 9, 1864, more than a hundred escaped from Libby by way of a tunnel. This books describes the jail and tunnel as they were, but much of the action and many details are imaginary. The characters are fictional. F Churchill Churchill, Winston. The Crisis. Washington Square, 1962. Stephen Brice, a Yankee, moves to St. Louis where he buys a slave at an auction and frees him. He wins the bitterness of most Southerners around him and also loses the love of Virginia Carvel, a true southern woman. F Crane Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. The red badge of courage : an episode of the American Civil War. New York : Norton, c1982. During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. F Cummings Cummings, Betty Sue. Hew against the grain. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1977. A young girl whose home is on the Virginia-West Virginia border loses her will to live after she becomes a victim of the cruelties of civil war. F Faulkner Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Absalom, Absalom! New York, : Random house, 1964 [1936]. Thomas Sutpen, son of a poor white planter, attempts to be accepted as a Southern aristocrat and founder of a wealthy family. Returning from battle in the Civil War, he finds his plantation and dreams in ruins. F Fleischman Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1993. Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War. F Forman Forman, James D. Becca's story. 1st ed. New York : Toronto : New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992. A Civil War romance concerning a Michigan girl and the two soldiers who are rivals for her hand. F Frazier Frazier, Charles, 1950-. Cold mountain. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1997. The story of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks back home from the Civil War to his pre-war sweetheart Ada. F Herrin Herrin, Lamar. The unwritten chronicles of Robert E. Lee. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1989. "A Thomas Dunne book." Explores the psychological motivations of Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. F Hunt Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils. Chicago, : Follett Pub. Co., [1964]. Jethro, who is nine years old when the first April blooms, must run the farm in southern Illinois almost alone during the Civil War. Dangers on the home front prove as exciting as those in battle. F Hurmence Hurmence, Belinda. Tancy. New York : Clarion Books, c1984. At the end of the Civil War, Tancy - a young house slave on a small North Carolina plantation - searches for her mother who was mysteriously sold when she was a baby. F Johnston Johnston, Norma. Of time and of seasons. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1975. The newly begun Civil War is only one more complication in the lives of Bridget's family in which everyone seems talentedexcept Bridget. F Johnston Johnston, Norma. Ready or not. Funk, 1965. F Jones Jones, Douglas C. Elkhorn Tavern. 1st ed. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1980. While Martin Hasford is away fighting in the Confederate army, his wife Ora and two children Roman and Calpurnia, fight off civilian and military marauders near the tavern called The Elkhorn in western Arkansas. F Kantor Kantor, MacKinlay 1904-. Andersonville. Signet, 1955. This novel of life in the notorious Andersonville prison, which was maintained by the Confederate States during the Civil War, reveals the shame and horror of conditions in which Yankee soldiers starved, were murdered, or lost their sanity. F Mitchell Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind. New York, : Macmillan, 1936. After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home. F Rinaldi Rinaldi, Ann. The last silk dress. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1988. During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets. F Rinaldi Rinaldi, Ann. In my father's house. New York : Scholastic Inc., c1993. For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house. F Rinaldi Rinaldi, Ann. An acquaintance with darkness. 1st ed. San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, c1997. When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research. F Slaughter Slaughter, Frank G. In a dark garden. Doubleday, 1946. A romantic historical novel about a young Confederate field surgeon who uses his knowledge of medicine and surgery on the wounded of both north and south during the Civil War. In his affairs with women he is not so canny, for unknowingly he marries a beautiful spy. F Stevenson Stevenson, Janet. Weep no more. Viking, 1960. In Richmond during the Civil War, a woman known as Crazy Bet, was considered harmlessly insane. A Pinkerton-trained detective suspected she was the source of informational leaks, but could not prove her guilt. In reality, she commanded a network of agents for the North and forwarded essential information to Washington, hid escaped Union prisoners in her secret attic room. F Williamson Williamson, Joanne S. And forever free. Knopf, 1960. Martin Herter, an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, arrives in New York in 1863, just as Lincoln makes the Emancipation Proclamation. He pieces together the different meanings of the word freedom. PB Crane Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. The red badge of courage. New York, : Grosset & Dunlap, 1971 [1895]. During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. PB Crane Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. The red badge of courage. New York, : Grosset & Dunlap, [1971, c1952]. During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. PB Gurganus Gurganus, Allan, 1947-. Oldest living Confederate widow tells all. Ballantine ed. New York : Ivy Books, 1990. Lucy Marsden's testament of her Civil War days includes a three-way love story, an eccentric small-town family, accounts of combat, and the price she paidthe lives of her nine children and the freedom of her best friend. PB Hunt Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils. New York : Berkley : Pacer, 1986, c1964. During the Civil War, nine-year-old Jethro must run the family farm in southern Illinois almost alone. PB Jakes Jakes, John, 1932-. North and South. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1982. A novel of two families during twenty turbulent, troubled years that culminate in the shattering Civil War. PB Shaara Shaara, Michael. The killer angels; : a novel. New York : Ballantine Books, [1974]. A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view. SC Fenner Fenner, Phyllis R. (Phyllis Reid), 1899-. Brother against brother : stories of the War between the states. New York : Morrow, 1957. The coverlid, by Mary Wells.For the honor of the company, by Mary E. Mitchell.The home-coming, by Elsie Singmaster.Silent grow the guns, by MacKinlay Kantor.The white feather, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.The banjo string, by Louis Reed.Cadmus Henry, Balloon Observer, by Walter D. Edmonds.Jack Ellyat at Gettysburg, by Stephen Vincent Benet.The battleground, by Elsie Singmaster.The day after Thanksgiving, by Harnett T. Kane.Corporal Hardy, by Richard Ely Danielson.Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg, by Carl Sandburg. VT 808.83 Ac 1 Across five Aprils. Westminster, Md. : Random House Video, 1986. Story of a young boy and his family and neighbors from backwoods Illinois as they cope with the tragedy of the Civil War. Grade: Middle. Located at Roeder - checkout via e-mail. VT 808.83 Li 4 Little women. Burbank, CA : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1995. Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado [and others]. The four March sisters and their mother manage as best they can while their father is away during the Civil War. Grade: Middle, High. Located at Roeder - Checkout via e-mail. VT 973.7 Ac 1 (ROEDER) A time to choose. [New York] : Learning Corporation of America ; dist. by Coronet/MTI Film & Video, 1990. Todd Duffey, Miriam Byrd Nethery, John Touchstone [and others]. Story of a young boy, his family and his neighbors who live in a backwoods Illinois community during the period of the Civil War. Grade: Middle, High. LOCATED AT ROEDER - CHECKOUT VIA E-MAIL. VT 973.7 Ac 2 (ROEDER) War & hope. [New York] : Learning Corporation of America ; dist. by Coronet/MTI Film & Video, 1990. Todd Duffey, Miriam Byrd Nethery, John Touchstone [and others]. Story of a young boy, his family and neighbors who live in a backwoods Illinois community during the period of the Civil War. Grade: Middle, High. LOCATED AT ROEDER - CHECKOUT VIA E-MAIL. | |
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