num_pages: 720
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Widow of the South
titlecomplete: The Widow of the South (Large Print)
characters: Zachariah Cashwell, Carrie McGavock, John McGavock, Mariah
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Civil War, Adult, American History, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Southern, American Civil War
ratings_count: 17002
places: Tennessee, The United States of America
publisher: Warner