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Historical person
P. G. T. Beauregard is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
Bernard Cornwell’s Rebel places P. G. T. Beauregard within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Jeff Shaara’s A Blaze of Glory is set in spring 1862, Confederate forces in the western theatre have been driven from Kentucky and much of Tennessee.
Series
The Civil War in the West is Jeff Shaara’s four-volume sequence about campaigns beyond the more familiar eastern battlefields. It begins with A Blaze of Glory at Shiloh and continues through Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Sherman’s final campaigns across Georgia and the Carolinas. The books follow Ulysses S.…
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The Starbuck Chronicles follow Nathaniel Starbuck, the son of a prominent Boston abolitionist preacher, after chance and personal loyalty draw him into Confederate service at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Serving first in the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must prove himself among soldiers who distrust his Northern…
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