THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH

Robert Hicks

$5.95 - Hard Cover - Illustrated

1st Edition, August 2005

ISBN:  0-446-50012-7
ISBN: 0-445-57882-7 (Lg Print)

 Excellent Condition - One Owner

The Widow of the South is a fictional account of a real-life figure: Carrie McGavock, whose Tennessee home at Carnton Plantation was commandeered into a field hospital during the bloody Battle of Franklin on Nov. 30, 1864, that left 9,000 dead, 7,000 of them Confederate soldiers. McGavock became an angel of mercy for the wounded that day, but it was only the beginning of her extraordinary tale.

Two years later, when a neighbor prepared to plow up a field that contained the remains of 1,500 Confederate soldiers, an outraged McGavock and her husband John dug up the bodies and re-interred them in their backyard, creating the only privately owned Confederate cemetery. Carrie carefully arranged and recorded the name and regiment of each soldier in her "book of the dead," and walked daily among her memories. She was well known as the Widow of the South until her death in 1905, but largely forgotten afterward.