The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
If God was watching that Indian summer afternoon of November 30, 1864, some say he would have been looking at the continent of America, in the central part of a state called Tennessee, at a little town called Franklin - where a terrible battle was about to begin. Within a few short hours nearly 10,000 men would be dead, and the lives of many others changed utterly; none more so than Carrie McGavock who would find her home taken over by the Confederate Army and turned into a field hospital. On the field of battle, a seasoned Southern soldier, Zachariah Cashwell, would drop his gun and charge forward into Yankee territory holding only the flag of his company's colours. In the pain-filled days and weeks that followed, both would find a form of mutual healing that neither thought possible. In an extraordinary debut novel, based on a true story, Robert Hicks paints an unforgettable portrait of a woman who, through love and loss, found a cause. Known throughout the country as the Widow of the South, Carrie McGavock gave her heart first to a stranger, then to a tract of hallowed ground, becoming in the process a symbol of a nation's soul.
Robert Hicks has worked in the Nashville music industry for twenty years. For 25 years Robert has been the driving force in the preservation and restoration of the Historic Carnton Plantation in Franklin, TN. He sits on the board of the museum and has held every role over those years from trashhauler to three-time president. While working in the preservation of Carnton, he discovered old diaries, scrapbooks, letters and yellowed newspaper clippings and began to piece together the story of Carrie McGavock. Widow of the South is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593055908 |
| ISBN 10 | 059305590X |
| Title | The Widow of the South |
| Author | Robert Hicks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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