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Historical Fiction - Civil War Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - Civil War genre:
John Brown’s Body (1930)
An epic poem about the abolitionist and domestic terrorist.
Author(s):
Stephen Vincent Benet
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Petticoat Court (1930)
A young woman from New Orleans travels to France during the Civil War.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Away to Sea (1931)
Jim Slater ran away from his father’s farmhouse to become a sailor. Later, he discovered he was aboard a slave ship.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Clinton Balmer
Grandmother’s Doll (1931)
Betty and her grandmother find Araminta, a Christmas doll of 1875, in the attic.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Gladwin Bouton
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1931)
Author(s):
John Fox, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Omnibus Jules Verne (1931)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1931)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Author(s):
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s):
Helen Mason Grose
The Willow Whistle (1931)
Mary Anne’s father opens a general store on the prairie. Her friend Eric teaches her to make willow whistles.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (1932)
A story about the underground railroad that brought slaves from the South to Canada.
Author(s):
Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Louisa Alcott’s People (1936)
Selections from the works of Louisa May Alcott, including Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Thomas J. Fogarty
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book (1936)
Phebe spends a year with her country cousins in Connecticut in the 1840’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Boy Emigrants (1939)
Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. This edition bound in black cloth with a paste on cover is more typical of the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Harvey Thomas Dunn
Boy with a Pack (1939)
Bill Crawford sets out from New Hampshire with a peddlar’s pack for the Ohio country.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Ramona (1939)
Ramona is a mixed-race woman of Native American and Scotch ancestry. The novel tells of her travails during the settlement of California after the Mexican American War.
Author(s):
Helen Hunt Jackson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Yearling (1939)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Smoky House (1940)
An exciting story about dogs and donkeys and smugglers.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
The Yearling (1940)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Pirate Waters (1941)
Young midshipman Harry Gringo sails aboard a U.S. Navy corvette in pursuit of a band of pirates.
Author(s):
Edwin L. Sabin
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Longshanks (1945)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton