Title: The Guns of the South
Subtitle: a novel of the Civil War
First published: 1992
Description: January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.
Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.

The name of the weapon is the AK-47....
Subjects: Alternative histories, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Fiction, historical, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, historical, general, United States
Places: United States
People: Robert E. Lee
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: PS3570.U76 G86 1992