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. The story that ensues between Carrie and Cashwell is just as unforgettable as the battle from which it is drawn. And when a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrived and awakened feelings she had thought long dead, Carrie found herself inexplicably drawn to him despite the boundaries of class and decorum.

Carrie's home the Carnton plantation was taken over by the Confederate army and turned into a hospital four generals lay dead on her back porch the pile of amputated limbs rose as tall as the smoke house. There were 9,200 casualties that fateful day. The novel flashes back thirty years to the afternoon of the Battle of Franklin, five of the bloodiest hours of the Civil War. 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.

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. Robert Hicks The Widow of the South Paperback Illustrated, Septemby Robert Hicks (Author) 1,075 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 28.70 Other new and used from 2.41 Paperback 10.99 Other new, used and collectible from 1. 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. 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. 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