Civil War Literature (Historical Fiction) 

Are you interested in reading a fictional book that takes place during the Civil War time period? 
Take a look at the bibliography below. 

North Library

• Evvy’s Civil War by Miriam Brenaman  

• Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn 

• The Journal of Rufus Rowe: a Witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg by Sid Hite 

• Nowhere to Turn by Alan N. Kay 

• How I Found the Strong:  A Civil War Story by Margaret McMullan 

• The River Between Us by Rickard Peck 

• Silent Thunder:  A Civil War Story by Andrea Davis Pinkney 

• The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi 

• Sarah’s Ground by Ann Rinaldi 

• Trembling Earth by Kim L. Siegelson 

• Little Women by Lousia May Alcott            

• Numbering the Bones by Ann Rinaldi 

• The Red Badge of Courage:  An Episode in the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

South Library

• Which Way Freedom? By Joyce Hanson 

• A Light in the Storm:  The Civil War Diary of  Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse 

• Rifles for Watie by  Harold Keith 

• Silent Thunder:  A Civil War Story by Andrea Davis Pinkney 

• A Ballad of the Civil War by Mary Stolz 

• 1863; A House Divided by:  A Novel of the Civil War by Elizabeth Massie 

Other Titles...check the Washington Township Public Library

• The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories edited  by  James Martin 

• The Couturiere of Galvez by Dionne Wanda 

• Dreams of Ships, Dreams of Julia : At Sea with the Monitor and the Merrimac by Maureen Stack Sappey 

• Family: A Novel by J. Cooper 

• Heaven and Hell by John Jakes 

• A House Divided by Marj Gurasich 

• The Longest Ride by Denise Lewis 

• A Rose at Bull Run:  Romance and Realities of First Bull Run by Maureen Stack Sappey 

• United in Freedom by Marcia Lynch 

• Watcher in the Piney Woods by Elizabeth McDavid Jones