Civil War Fiction

In the aftermath of the Civil War, their paths diverge, yet fate intertwines their lives. Gentry Hamilton, now a stalwart lawman, shoulders the weight of duty and honor while his friend Del Rankin settles down to his family farm and the warmth of his wife, Emma. But tragedy strikes when Emma is murdered by two saddle tramps while both Gentry and Del are out of town. Blaming everyone, especially his friend Sheriff Gentry, Del spirals into madness, blinded by anguish and unleashing violence upon all who cross his path. Gentry, caught in the crossfire of Del’s inability to reason and ...

It’s 1869 in the New Mexico Territory and the frontier legend of Dory McLee is only growing. The farm girl is as skilled at riding, shooting and chasing criminals as much as her male counterparts. Back east, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, know about Dory thanks to the sensationalized dime books and pamphlets, yelling out her western moxie. Their stories, including the taming of a grizzly bear, may be exaggerated. Yet people have become enchanted with the young woman. In the real world, the stakes are high for Dory as she is helping a friend, Abby Davis, find the killer of her ...

His army destroyed her livelihood. She represents the people he scorns. How can they reconcile their differences when the whole country is at war? When the Union Army marches into Roswell, Georgia, and burns down the cotton mill where Rose Carrigan worked, not only is her livelihood destroyed but she’s also taken prisoner and shipped northward with the other workers. Only the unlikely kindness of one of her guards makes the trip bearable. Union Captain Noah Griffin hates the part of his job that requires him to destroy the lives of innocent civilians, but at least he’s able to protect ...

Susie King Taylor, born a slave in 1848, would learn to read at secret schools and go on to teach countless others to read and write. Follow the course of the Civil War in her own words as she remembers her work as a nurse and teacher with an Army troop of African-American soldiers.

Two brutal years in America’s civil war have made a veteran of Shire; his younger English self buried beneath scars and unwanted memories. Unable to help, he watches as Tuck – his Union brother-in-arms – retreats from reality. Both the war and Shire’s heart relentlessly circle him back to Clara, his childhood love. He needs to believe they can share a life beyond the war. Clara’s home is in ashes. Shire has left her once again to rejoin the fighting further south. She moves west in search of a new start and a past love. Captain Tod Carter rides with the Confederate Army. He’s ...

Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother - or what happened to her. When Dahlia’s father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she’s desperately lonely. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither. Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she’s white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him.

Once a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devastation of the War Between the States. But with a forced marriage and a desolate future on the horizon, her hopes are beginning to dwindle. When she discovers an encrypted note on a dying soldier, she seizes the opportunity to use it to deliver a message of her own. Instead, she’s mistaken for a spy and captured. Can she unravel a conspiracy before her secrets cost a man his life? The complete trilogy of exciting Accidental Spy novels.

Constantine is given two mysterious pills that grant him the ability to heal from any wound. He thinks this is great until everyone he knows grows old and dies, while he has stopped aging. Through good times, bad times, slavery, and loss, Constantine travels through history, guiding his descendants and influencing major events. Through it all, he finds purpose in war, but ultimately must come to terms with being an empty shell, unable to die.

Written by Leonard Wibberley—author of over 100 novels, including The Mouse That Roared. A cynical, American journalist is tasked with interviewing an elderly priest named Father Felix who refuses to leave his mission, which is caught in the path of opposing armies during the Blemi Civil War in Africa. As Weathers makes his way to the mission, he learns more and more about this stubborn priest. When he finally arrives at the mission, his lack of faith in humanity is challenged. “This is a book guaranteed to make the reader feel good… suspenseful, provocative… uplifting.”—The ...

In the third volume of the critically acclaimed Marching with Caesar series, Titus Pullus and his friends in the 10th Legion are called on to serve as the agents of change as their general, Gaius Julius Caesar singlehandedly changes the Roman Republic to Empire.

When the Confederacy concentrated their forces at Corinth, Mississippi preparatory to attacking General U. S. Grant’s army at Shiloh in April 1862, the Rebel brass ordered the largest army west of the Mississippi River–The Army of the West–to join the concentration. Although it did not arrive at Corinth until after Shiloh had been fought and lost, the bulk of the Army of the West remained east of the Mississippi River until the end of the war. Consequently, the Northern front of the Confederate battle line west of the River was almost defenseless. Even after Arkansans complained to ...

Americans can’t get along anymore. That’s what everybody said. Better to separate than to burn. Or is it? Political parties took the law into their own hands, to solve our problems for us. Only they didn’t solve them, they encouraged the very behavior that tore us apart. They played referee for a fight they started, a fight they wanted. It was too late to turn back. Anderson poured his soul onto the page, trying to put into words what happened to his beloved America. Kelso just wanted to run his store in peace. Jackson learned how victimhood worked, and no longer wanted any part of it...

Hunting the men who did it. One by one. After learning the truth about his family’s killers, Deputy Lucas Butler leaves behind his East Texas home and tracks down the Bloodhoof Gang, the seven men responsible for the fateful night that tore apart his childhood. Some of the brutes have vanished from sight. But others still eke out their heartless trades. Elwood Roscoe, the engine behind the Bloodhoof reign of terror, hasn’t lost his taste for blood and theft. He’s made his living making a mockery of justice. As Lucas uncovers an ocean of pain left behind by the gang, he also finds ...

A survivor of undead suburbia, mountain man Augustus “Gus” Berry is extremely careful when it comes to his actions and movements. He takes no chances and painstakingly weighs every decision—until he sets out for the hospital at the edge of town, hoping to discover a treasure trove of essential supplies. Soon, Gus will experience terror the likes of which he's never encountered before . . .

This is the story of a young man, unexpectedly thrust back in time, into a major battle of the Civil War, Gettysburg and how he copes with the challenges he faces during the battle and on his return to his own time.

War has broken out on the Mainland. The North and South are fighting. How does this impact the Americans living in the Pacific Islands of Hawaii? William Goode's son is missing after joining the Northern Army. William has rushed to the mainland to find his son. He enlists as a medical officer to gain access the battleground front and is captured. William's wife, Kelea, and the rest of the ohana travel across a war torn continent to help them. Meanwhile the Confederate Navel vessel, a steam auxiliary clipper ship is prowling the Pacific intent on sinking Yankee whalers to stop the flow of ...

When the Secretary of War appoints Dorothea Dix superintendent over the female nurses assigned to the Union Army, any woman who desires to serve must meet strict criteria: She had to be above thirty years of age, wear only plain, dark colors, and have no “ribbons, curls, bows, or hoops” about her person. Kate Wilkes fits all the criteria but one. Her father always said her curls were so tight even God couldn’t straighten them. When Kate starts tending the wounded soldiers at the Union Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, chief surgeon Major James Logan doesn’t believe a battlefield ...

n 1861 Bethel Erwin joins the Confederate army as Private Tandy Scott to escape the dreary life of a woman in the hills. She signs up for the 2nd Tennessee Infantry along with her younger brother and cousin. Bethel's medical skills earn her a promotion to assistant surgeon when she later deserts the CSA to join the Union army.After the bloody battle of Shiloh, Bethel and her brother, George, come to the aid of a young widow in Corinth and their lives are changed forever.

Civil War veteran Clint Turner is a happy man working as a blacksmith in Macon, Texas. He loves to see his neighbors use the metals forged from his hands until all that changes dramatically when an outlaw gang kills his brother-in-law and his sister. From then on, he has only one thing on his mind – a mixture of justice and vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Clint campaigns to become sheriff of Macon County. The law enforcement job for Clint would see him put to good use his six shooter, his wits, and his sense of justice.

For Clint Beck, a quest to arrest Ruffen is also his chance at redemption. Rustling is a big problem for the God-fearing folks of Perryville in 1870. Not only that, but it’s now escalated with the killing of community pillar Jonas Davidson – a farmer, husband and father of five. The town screams for justice. As Perryville sheriff, Clint sets out to arrest the guilty parties. Almost everyone in the county knows that Clyde Ruffen and his gang are behind the heinous crime but… proving it is another story. Ruffen has spent thirty years learning how to hide his crimes and avoid the law. He...