The Widow of the South

Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.

Carnton Plantation, 1894. Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost one,500 soldiers buried here. As she walks among the dead, an elderly man appears—the same soldier she met that fateful day long ago. Today, he asks if the cemetery has room for one more . . .

Based on an extraordinary true story, this brilliant, meticul...