The Widow of the South
Robert Hicks
- Based
- on
- a
- true
- story,
- this
- debut
- Civil
- War
- novel
- follows
- a
- Southern
- plantation
- woman's
- journey
- of
- transforming
- her
- home
- into
- a
- hospital
- for
- the
- war.This
- debut
- novel
- is
- based
- on
- the
- true
- story
- of
- Carrie
- McGavock.
- During
- the
- Civil
- War's
- Battle
- of
- Franklin,
- a
- five-hour
- bloodbath
- with
- 9,200
- casualties,
- McGavock's
- home
- was
- turned
- into
- a
- field
- hospital
- where
- four
- generals
- died.
- For
- 40
- years
- she
- tended
- the
- private
- cemetery
- on
- her
- property
- where
- more
- than
- 1,000
- were
- laid
- to rest.
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