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Historical person
John Bell Hood is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Robert Hicks’s The Widow of the South, Carrie McGavock’s home at Carnton is taken over as a Confederate field hospital when John Bell Hood sends the Army of Tennessee against entrenched Union troops. In Robert Hicks’s A Separate Country, in postwar New Orleans, former Confederate general John Bell Hood is physically disabled, publicly controversial and determined to establish a life beyond his military defeat.
Series
The South series links two novels set in Franklin, Tennessee, around Carnton and the historical women whose lives were shaped by slavery, war and its aftermath. The Widow of the South follows Carrie McGavock during the Battle of Franklin and her later care of the soldiers’ cemetery, while…
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Standalone books
