FREE: The Widow of the South [Hardcover]

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This 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" hardback book with jacket has 426 pages. Very good condition.******Based on a true story, THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH tells the stirring tale of a woman named Carrie McGavock, who is forever scarred by watching her two children die. When the Civil War comes to her Tennessee town, Carrie helps care for the wounded Confederate soldiers who arrive there after a bloody battle. Later, when the bodies of the dead are in danger of being excavated, she establishes a Confederate cemetery at her plantation--an actual place, now restored--and becomes obsessed with the task of tending to it. Told from multiple points of view, this is an epic tale of a catastrophic war, seen through the eyes of the ordinary people who were caught up in it.*******