The Widow of the South (2006 Paperback)

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2006-12-1 Pages: 551 Publisher: Yi Chau Carnton Plantation. 1894: Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost 1.500 soldiers buried here As she walks among the dead. an elderly man. appears -.. the same soldiers she met that fateful day long ago Today. he asks if the cemetery has room for one more THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH Based on an extraordinary true story. this brilliant. meticulously researched novel flashes back to 1864 and the . afternoon of the Battle of Franklin. five of the bloodiest hours of the Civil War While the fierce fighting rages on Carries land. her plantation turns into a Confederate army hospital; four generals lie dead on her back porch; the pile of amputated limbs rises as tall as the smoke house But when a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrives at her house. he awakens feelings she ha...