Undaunted heart
Subtitle: the true story of a Southern belle & a Yankee general
By: Suzy Barile.
Publisher: Eno; Distributed by John F. Blair Publisher
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hillsborough, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780982077115
Subjects: Atkins, Smith D. -- 1836-1913; Atkins, Eleanor Hope Swain, -- 1842-1881; Generals -- United States -- Biography; Generals' spouses -- United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; North Carolina -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: When a brigade of General Sherman's victorious army marched into Chapel Hill the day after Easter 1865, the Civil War had just ended and President Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated. Citizens of the picturesque North Carolina college town had endured years of hardship and sacrifice, and now the Union army was patrolling its streets. One of Sherman's young generals paid a visit to the stately home of David Swain, president of the University of North Carolina and a former governor of the state, to inform him that the town was now under Union occupation. Against this unlikely backdrop began a passionate and controversial love story still vivid in town lore. When President Swain's daughter Ella met the Union general, life for these two young people who had spent the war on opposite sides was forever altered. [...] In Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle & a Yankee General, author Suzy Barile, a great-great-granddaughter of Ella Swain and Smith Atkins, tells their story, separating facts from the elaborate embellishments the famous courtship and marriage have taken on over the generations. Interwoven throughout Undaunted Heart are excerpts from Ella's never-before-published letters to her parents that reveal a loving marriage that transcended differences and scandal. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.