Mr. Wilson's Civil War Fiction Books
February 25, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
Fic Alp
Alphin, Elaine Marie.Ghost Soldier. Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.
Fic Bar HS
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. No Man's Land : A Young Soldier's Story. Because he had been unable to fight off the gator which injured his father, fourteen-year-old Thrasher joins the Confederate Army hoping to prove his manhood.
Fic Bea HS
Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker. In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
Fic Bea HS
Beatty, Patricia. Who Comes with Cannons? In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.
Fic Bea HS
Beatty, Patricia. Blue Stars Watching.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.
Fic Bri HS
Brick, John. Richmond Raid.
Fic Bro HS
Brown, Dee Alexander. Killdeer Mountain : A Novel. Saint Louis Herald journalist Sam Morrison, heading upriver on the Missouri in 1866, finds a story in Civil War hero Charles Tawley.
Fic Cal
Calvert, Patricia. Bigger. When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.
Fic Cla HS
Clapp, Patricia. The Tamarack tree : A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg. An English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.
Fic Cra HS
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. : An Episode of the American Civil War. 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.
Fic Cum HS
Cummings, Betty Sue. Hew Against the Grain. 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.
Fic Den
Denenberg, Barry. When Will This Cruel War be Over? : The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson. The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
Fic Ebe HS
Eberhart, Mignon Good. Family Fortune. On the same night that her father dies, Lucinda Chance discovers a wounded Confederate soldier, and her actions soon split her family's loyalties.
Fic Fle
Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run. 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.
Fic Fle HS
Fleming, Thomas J. Band of Brothers : West Point in the Civil War. Follows the exploits of cadets and officers at West Point where such graduates as Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson fought on both sides of the battle lines during the Civil War.
Fic For HS
Forman, James D. Becca's Story. A Civil War romance concerning a Michigan girl and the two soldiers who are rivals for her hand.
Fic Fri
Fritz, Jean. Brady. A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.
Fic Gau
Gauch, Patricia Lee. Thunder at Gettysburg. Fourteen-year-old Tillie becomes involved in the tragic battle of July 1-3, 1863.
Fic Gra
Gray, Genevieve. The Yellow Bone Ring. Fifteen-year-old Cato joins the first black regiment in the Union Army and learns the responsibility demanded by his new position as freedman.
Fic Hah HS
Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the Dead. Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
Fic Han Hansen, Joyce. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly : The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl. Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
Fic Han
Hansen, Joyce. Out From This Place. A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.
Fic Hes
Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm : The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin. 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.
Fic Hit
Hite, Sid. The Journal of Rufus Rowe : A Witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg. Sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there.
Fic Hun
Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils. During the Civil War, nine-year-old Jethro must run the family farm in southern Illinois almost alone.
Fic Hur HS
Hurmence, Belinda . Tancy. At the end of the Civil War, a young house slave on a small North Carolina plantation searches for her mother who was mysteriously sold when Tancy was a baby.
Fic Joh HS
Johnston, Norma. Of Time and of Seasons. The newly begun Civil War is only one more complication in the lives of Bridget's family in which everyone seems talented--except Bridget.
Fic Kan HS
Kantor, MacKinlay. Andersonville. Captures the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict, the Civil War, in the crowded world of the infamous prison, Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades.
Fic Kei HS
Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie. Sixteen-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey cannot wait to join the Army and defend the Union against the dreaded Colonel Watie, but when he is assigned to infiltrate the enemy camp as a spy, he discovers the rebels are boys and men just like him, and he must then decide whether to betray his enemies or join them.
Fic Lan HS
Lancaster, Bruce. No Bugles Tonight.
Fic Mas HS
Mason, F. Van Wyck. Trumpets Sound No More.
Fic Mit HS
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. 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.
Fic Mur
Murphy, Jim. The Journal of James Edmond Pease : A Civil War Union Soldier. James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Fic ODe HS
O'Dell, Scott. The 290. The adventures of a sixteen-year-old shipyard apprentice boy serving aboard the Confederate warship Alabama, one of the most famous ships of the American Civil War.
Fic Osb
Osborne, Mary Pope. My Brother's Keeper : Virginia's diary. In 1863, as the Civil War approaches her quiet town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Virginia records in a journal the horrible things she witnesses before, during, and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn. The story of a slave who teaches a slave girl, Sarny, to read.
Fic Pau HS
Paulsen, Gary. Sarny, A Life Remembered. Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
Fic Pau HS
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's Heart : A Novel of the Civil War. Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
Fic Pec HS
Peck, Richard. The River Between Us. During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
Fic Per HS
Perez, Norah A. The Slopes of War. Buck Hammerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins, Curtis and Mason, may be fighting against him in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Fic Pla HS
Plain, Belva. Crescent City. Miriam Raphael, raised in the lap of luxury in antebellum New Orleans, is unhappily married and in the midst of the Civil War must reconcile her wifely duties and a forbidden passion.
Fic Ree
Reeder, Carolyn. Across the Lines. Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.
Fic Ree
Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of Gray. At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war.
Fic Rin
Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia's War. When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. An Acquaintance with Darkness. 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.
Fic Rin
Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering All the Bones. Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and is rumored to be at Andersonville Prison.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. In My Father's House. For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their home.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. Girl in Blue. To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
Fic Rin HS
Rinaldi, Ann. Sarah's Ground. In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from New York state, comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert. Includes historical notes.
Fic Sto
Stolz, Mary. A Ballad of the Civil War. Weary of the war, a Union lieutenant recalls his life with his twin brother on their family's Virginia plantation and the events that led them to fight on different sides in the Civil War.
Fic Sto HS
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel credited with starting the Civil War.
Fic Swi HS
Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt. The Railroad to Freedom : A Story of the Civil War. and Co.,
Fic Wes HS
West, Jessamyn. The Friendly Persuasion.
Fic Wis
Wisler, G. Clifton. Mustang Flats. When his father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen-year-old Alby finds his beloved Pa a changed man and can only hope that they will be friends again.
Fic Wis HS
Wisler, G. Clifton. Red Cap. A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
