Emma Sansom: Confederate Heroine

ALABAMA ROOTS-A Biography Series Published by Seacoast Publishing, Inc. Alabama Roots is a book series designed to provide reading pleasure for young people (ages 12-15), to allow readers to better know the men and women who shaped the State of Alabama, and to fill a much needed void of quality regional non-fiction for students in middle grades. For years, teachers and librarians have searched for quality biographies about famous people from Alabama. This series is a response to that search. The series (40+ titles) will cover a span of time from pre-statehood through the modern day. The goal of Alabama Roots is to provide biographies that are historically accurate and as interesting as the characters whose lives they explore. Emma Sansom was a Confederate Heroine. A quot from her reads: "I was no longer afraid, even though my heart was pounding and the noise from the cannonballs was deafening...I took off my sunbonnet and waved it in defiance at the Yankees."