THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH is a brilliant novel that captures the end of an era, the vast madness of war, and the courage of a remarkable woman to claim life from the grasp of death itself. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. Known throughout the country as 'The Widow of the South,' Carrie McGavock gave her heart first to a stranger, then to a tract of hallowed ground–and became a symbol of a nation’s soul. Warner, 24.95 (426pp) ISBN 978-2-8 Hicks's big historical first novel, based on true events in his hometown, follows the saga of Carrie. ISBN-13 9780759514430 Genre Fiction / Fiction / Literary Description 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. In an extraordinary debut novel, based on a remarkable true story, Robert Hicks draws an unforgettable, panoramic portrait of a woman who, through love and loss, found a cause. He asks if the cemetery has room for one more. The man who came to her house as a wounded soldier and left with her heart. It is the man she met on the day of the battle that changed everything. Now, as she walks the rows of the dead, an old soldier appears. Synopsis: Reminiscent of Cold Mountain and Enemy Women, this is a gripping novel based on the incredible true story of a woman whose life was changed forever by the Civil War.In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman, an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company. Within a few short hours nearly 10,000 men would be dead, and the. Years before, rather than let someone plow over the field where these young men had been buried, Carrie dug them up and reburied them in her own personal cemetery. 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. In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company.and the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard.

The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks