Civil War
Historical Fiction

Starbuck Chronicles
  Bernard Cornwell

Rebel
Nathaniel Starbuck is the discredited son of an abolitionist preacher. Nate flees Boston and ends up in Richmond fighting for the Confederacy at the battle of First Bull Run/Manassas.

Copperhead
Nate Starbuck’s new-forged loyalties entice him to stay with the rebels even after his life and his family ties are put at risk when he must act as a spy to save his best friend from charges of espionage.

Battle Flag
Nate Starbuck becomes a Confederate captain, but finds the incompetence of his friend, General Faulconer, threatens his troops. Only General Stonewall Jackson can help him, when they meet up at the Second Battle of Manassas.

Bloody Ground
In 1862, Nate Starbuck fights at Antietam, one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles.

Look Away
  Coyle, Harold

Two brothers find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War, placed there deliberately by their diabolical New Jersey businessman father, so that he would be on the winning side regardless of the outcome. They eventually meet on the battlefield at Gettysburg.

The Silent
  Dann, Jack

After 13-year-old Edmund "Mundy" McDowell witnesses the murder of his parents by Yankee soldiers, the shock renders him speechless. As a mute traveler, he is taken in by various groups of escaped slaves and Confederate soldiers, and he tells his story in the form of a journal.

Cold Mountain
  Frazier, Charles

After four years of fighting under General Lee, the world-weary Inman makes his way home and to his beloved Ada. Meanwhile, Ada has been struggling to maintain her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.

On The Occasion Of My Last Afternoon
  Gibbons, Kaye

Emma Garnet Tate Lowell tells her tale at the end of her long and tumultuous life. Gibbons has gone back to the Civil War and imagined it from a wholly personal and feminine perspective, concerned not with politics but with blood and suffering.

Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All
  Gurganus, Allan

Lucille Marsden, 99, who married her husband when she was 15 and he was over 45, recalls his experiences in the Civil War and afterward during Reconstruction.

A Soldier's Book
  Higgins, Joanna

This novel tells of Union soldier Ira Cahill Stevens' capture by the Confederate Army after the Battle of the Wilderness and his subsequent ordeals in a crowded prison camp.

The Lucifer Contract
  Meyers, Maan

In this darkly thrilling mystery rooted in New York’s historic past, barmaid Meg Clancy and unsuspecting citizen Pete Tonneman become embroiled in a tangle of politics, greed, and cold-blooded butchery.

Fredericksburg
  Mitchell, Kirk

Six Irish soldiers tell about their involvement in the Civil War battle in Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862.

Stonewall’s Gold
  Mrazek, Robert J.

Jamie Lockhart travels through the war torn Shenandoah Valley, trying to discover who is desecrating the graves of soldiers. Pursued by men who would kill to gain the information he seeks, Jamie embarks on a quest that will test the limit of his courage and endurance.

Hiwassee
  Price, Charles F.

This novel focuses on the home front in rural North Carolina and how two brothers survive the fiercely fought Battle of Chickamauga.

Gods and Generals
  Shaara, Jeff

This epic story traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War to the Battle of Gettysburg.

The Last Full Measure
  Shaara, Jeff

In this final book of Michael and Jeff Shaara’s trilogy, the escalating confrontation between Lee and Grant through Lee’s surrender at Appomattox is narrated.

Killer Angels
  Shaara, Michael

The men who led the fight at the Battle of Gettysburg are brilliantly portrayed in this classic Civil War novel.