In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences.

In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

Presents a comprehensive atlas of the Civil War and contains over two hundred full-color maps, archival photographs and black-and-white illustrations, and narratives by two well-known Civil War scholars.

Hiding from the Nazis in the guise of a Christian farmer's wife, a Jewish woman is met with suspicion by a Nazi official who harbors a vendetta against the former seminary student posing as her husband.

The Daniel Lady Farm in Gettysburg was the northernmost Confederate hospital during the Civil War. It was the site where Confederate wounded from Culp's Hill (members of Major Gen. Edward Johnson's division of the Army of Northern Virginia) were brought for medical treatment. This story follows the Confederate army from northern Virginia to Gettysburg, chronicling events that took place over a time period of mid-June to July 4, 1863. And the book...

When an English girl comes to stay at Molly's during World War II, she and Molly learn to bridge their differences and ultimately enjoy a wonderful, mutual birthday party.

Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When Virginia seceded, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Union, her courage in clandestine combat would never waver, even as her actions threatened her reputation and her life.

Caroline and her mother make a dangerous trip across Lake Ontario to visit her father, a prisoner of war at a British fort, but when her mother is not allowed to see her father it is up to Caroline to pass on a secret message to him.

Presents a brief depiction of the Civil War battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July, 1863; and describes major Union and Confederate generals as well as details of the fight.

Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops’ blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby’s Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives...