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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-011.mrc:270692719:3117
Source marc_columbia
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LEADER: 03117cam a2200457 a 4500
001 5448926
005 20221110040057.0
008 050414s2005 nyuab b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2005010568
020 $a0446500127
020 $a0446578827 (lg. print)
035 $a(OCoLC)59360225
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm59360225
035 $a(DLC) 2005010568
035 $a(NNC)5448926
035 $a5448926
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB-B
043 $an-us-tn
050 00 $aPS3608.I287$bW53 2005
082 00 $a811/.6$222
100 1 $aHicks, Robert,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2001088447
245 14 $aThe widow of the south /$cRobert Hicks.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bWarner Books,$c2005.
300 $a426 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421).
520 1 $a"In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...and the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard. Years before, rather than let anyone plow over her field where these young men had been buried, Carrie dug them up and reburied 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 on the 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." "The novels flashes back thirty years to the afternoon of the Battle of Franklin, five of the bloodiest hours of the Civil War. There were 9,200 casualties that fateful day. Carrie's home - the Carnton plantation - was taken over by the Confederate army and turned into a hospital; four generals lay dead on her back porch; the pile of amputated limbs rose as tall as the smoke house. And when a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrived and awakened feelings she had thought long dead, Carrie found herself inexplicably drawn to him despite the boundaries of class and decorum." "The Widow of the South is a novel that captures the end of an era, the vast madness of war, and the courage of a remarkable woman to claim life from the grasp of death itself."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMcGavock, Caroline E. Winder,$d1829-1905$vFiction.
651 0 $aTennessee$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCasualties$vFiction.
651 0 $aTennessee$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xHospitals$vFiction.
651 0 $aTennessee$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vFiction.
650 0 $aFranklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864$vFiction.
650 0 $aPlantation owners' spouses$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106543
651 0 $aWilliamson County (Tenn.)$vFiction.
650 0 $aPlantation life$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108938
650 0 $aCemeteries$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118624
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aWar stories.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPS3608.I287$iW53 2005