The Widow of the South - Robert Hicks
This book was bought for me by the Kman for Christmas and I have just got round to reading this. I found this book quite hard going and didn’t realise until the end that it was based in a true story.
The story is written around the event of the American Civil War and around two main characters; Carrie McGavock and Zachariah Caswell. Carrie lives in big house in a town called Franklin, which is taken over by the Confederate Army as a hospital, she has to deal with the horrors of the war as the injured soldiers are brought to her house for medical attention. Zachariah Caswell is an injured solider who wants to die but is saved by Carrie.
Again I don’t want to give too much away in this review but I did enjoy the book as it showed the courage of Carrie and how she dealt with the Civil War and how she is remembered to this day for work she did for those soldiers slain in the war.
I will give this book 6/10
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