Historical
romance. A Mississippi plantation. A southern belle. A Union officer. The
turmoil of the Civil War rips a country asunder as lives are transformed.
Brothers, three reared in the South, the other the North. Will they ever see
eye-to-eye?
Alice
Caldwell is young and in love in the midst of the raging war that disrupts her
world. She hopes to soon announce her engagement when the Civil War destroys
her plans, and her beau leaves to fight.
Bert
Russell, a Union officer, invades her life when his wounded men are moved to
Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and he turns it into a hospital
for his soldiers. When there is not enough room for his men and the Confederate
soldiers, he confiscates Cotton Grove Plantation, Alice’s home, as a hospital
for his remaining men and encamps on her front lawn.
Working
in the hospital with wounded and dying men changes Alice’s once-sheltered life.
She’s no simpering southern belle batting lashes behind a sandalwood fan, but
becomes a woman who finds the courage to go on.
Through it all, the magnolia trees continue to bloom,
majestic live oaks curtained with Spanish moss wave their limbs, the great
Mississippi River continues to flow as the North and South battle for its
control, and somehow, people go on with their lives.
Civil War Historical Romance Short Story
A complete short story with beginning, middle, and conclusion
divided into four chapters and an epilogue for your reading convenience and
pleasure.
Carmen and Ben fall in love one Grand Isle Summer, but the Civil
War comes to Louisiana, and disrupts their plans. Ben takes off to Fort
Livingston to see why the Confederate soldiers are gathered.
Six months go by with no word from Ben. Carmen warned him if he
went to war, she would disguise herself as a man and follow him. Early one
morning, she slips out of Grand Isle Plantation and finds an old boat. Carmen
paddles to the fort in search of her lost summer love, intending to find him if
it is the last thing she ever does, leaky old boat or not.
The
waves are rough and nearly wash right over the sides of the wooden boat. Carmen
fears she might have been too brave, but she doesn't turn back. She has to find
Ben.
