Historical Fiction & Poetry

FIC025 On The Occasion Of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons
Emma Garnet Tate, born to a privileged life leaves to marry a doctor in Raleigh and is happy until war destroys the rhythm of their days.

FIC015 The Garies And Their Friends    
Frank J. Webb
Originally published in London in 1857, this book was the second novel published by an African-American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-civil War northeast.

 

FIC018 Cold Mountain
A Novel by Charles Frazier 
The tale of Inman, a wounded soldier who walks away from the ravages of the Civil War and back home to Ada, his prewar sweetheart.  

FIC009  Like Unto Like. A Coming of Age Story and Commentary on the Trials of Womanhood in the Reconstruction South.  
Sherwood Bonner
Originally published in 1878 after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow recommended it to Harper and Brothers, this novel marks the emergence of a feminist critique of southern society a full generation before more well-known authors. 
   

FIC024  The Last Full Measure
Jeff Shaara
As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. 

POET01  Voyages. Poems by Walt Whitman    
Selected by L.B. Hopkins
Takes the reader on a biographical journey that begins in Whitman's mid-thirties and ends in his early seventies. 

BLK010  Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe..
The book that contributed to the growth of the abolitionist movement

FIC003   Les Miserable
Victor Hugo
This was a popular book of the Civil War period. Hardcover.
 

GB025   If the South Won Gettysburg
M. Nesbitt.
The author makes a bold speculation which would have changed many features and customs of the United States

FIC019   Gettysburg: An Alternate History  
Peter Tsouras
The author presents the alternatives as if they were the reality, and explores the effect they would have had on the course of the war.

FIC004  Guns of the South 
H. Turtledove.
It is 1864 and Lee's army is huddled on the banks of the Rapidan fighting a desperate battle when time travelers arrive with 20th century weapons to turn the tide for the South. 

FIC022  How Few Remain 
H. Turtledove.
Another angle on the American Civil War with consequences that lead into the 20th century and World War I.

FIC023  The Great War: American Front
H. Turtledove.
The follow-on to How Few Remain, Turtledove uses the foundation laid during the alternative Civil War to reveal a different world at war.