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Also by Robert Hicks:

The Widow Of The South, September 2009
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The Widow of the South, August 2005
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THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH
By: Robert Hicks

Hicks's big historical first novel, based on true events in his hometown, follows the saga of Carrie McGavock, a lonely Confederate wife who finds purpose transforming her Tennessee plantation into a hospital and cemetery during the Civil War.

Warner
August 2005
Featuring: Carrie McGavock
432 pages
ISBN: 0446500127
Hardcover
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In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman, an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...along with the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard. Years ago, rather than let someone plow over the field where these young men had been buried, Carrie dug them up and buried them in her own personal cemetery. Now, as she walks the rows of the dead, an old soldier appears. It is the man she met that day of the battle that changed everything. The man who came to her house as a wounded soldier and left with her heart. He asks if the cemetery has room for one more.

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