Product Description

Tennessee, 1864. On a late autumn day, near a little town called Franklin, 10,000 men will soon lie dead or dying in a battle that will change many lives for ever. None will be more changed than Carrie McGavock, who finds her home taken over by the Confederate army and turned into a field hospital. Taking charge, she finds the courage to face up to the horrors around her and, in doing so, finds a cause.

Out on the battlefield, a tired young Southern soldier drops his guns and charges forward into Yankee territory, holding only the flag of his company's colours. He survives and is brought to the hospital. Carrie recognizes something in him - a willingness to die - and decides on that day, in her house, she will not let him.

In the pain-filled days and weeks that follow, both find a form of mutual healing that neither thinks possible.

In this extraordinary debut novel based on a true story, Robert Hicks has written an epic novel of love and heroism set against the madness of the American Civil War.

Product Details

• Published on: 2006-09-26
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 5
• Dimensions: 5.75" h x .75" w x 5.25" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Audio CD

Choice
'Based on fact and meticulously researched, it is a moving novel. Robert Hicks is a superb storyteller.'

Saga Magazine
"This remarkable first novel, written in strong vivid prose, affirms love in the shared grief and madness of war."

From the Back Cover
If God was watching that Indian summer afternoon of November 30, 1864, some say he would have been looking at the continent of America, in the central part of a state called Tennessee, at a little town called Franklin - where a terrible battle was about to begin.

Within a few short hours nearly 10,000 men would be dead, and the lives of many others changed utterly; none more so than Carrie McGavock who would find her home taken over by the Confederate Army and turned into a field hospital. On the field of battle, a seasoned Southern soldier, Zachariah Cashwell, would drop his gun and charge forward into Yankee territory holding only the flag of his company’s colours.

In the pain filled days and weeks that followed, both would find a form of mutual healing that neither thought possible

In an extraordinary debut novel, based on a true story, Robert Hicks paints an unforgettable portrait of a woman who, through love and loss, found a cause.Known throughout the country as the Widow of the South, Carrie McGavock gave her heart first to a stranger, then to a track of hallowed ground, becoming in the process a symbol of a nation’s soul.