title: The Gunner Wore Petticoats
author: Schinleber, S.J.
description: Abandoned by her father, orphaned by her mother, left behind with strangers… One woman puts aside her dresses and her womanly chores and answers the call to arms. In a bid to reunite with her brothers fighting for the Union somewhere down South, this determined young woman disguises her gender and discovers alongside her fellow soldiers, a camaraderie and sense of purpose she has never known. Until the day she rescues a wounded Southern solder, who turns upside down everything she though she knew about war and loyalty…