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Historical Fiction - Civil War Genre

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Books in the Historical Fiction - Civil War genre:

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)

Thad Hopkins is going downriver to meet his father in New Orleans when he is unceremoniously tossed overboard by a thief. He is rescued by a passing flatboat man -- Abe Lincoln. This is the second edition with new illustrations by Edward Shenton.... View More

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

Where My Love Sleeps (1945)

Story of the last year of fighting around Petersburg and Richmond during the Civil War.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Clifford Dowdey
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Golden Flash (1947)

A steam-driven fire engine ends up in a mining boom town and saves the day.

Author(s): May McNeer
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1948

The Vixens (1947)

Story of Laird Fournis, a Southern aristocrat, who returns to New Orleans after the Civil War to reestablish his ancestral home. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Frank Yerby
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Mary Montgomery, Rebel (1948)

A fictionalized biography of a southern girl at the time of the Civil War.

Author(s): Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)

Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

A House for Ten (1949)

A family with ten children live on a farm in Indiana in the 1850’s.

Author(s): Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

A Long Way to Frisco (1951)

A nineteenth century pig drive on the west coast.

Author(s): Alfred Powers
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

No Way Back (1953)

A story of the English civil war from the point of view of a Roundhead family. 

Author(s): Hilda Cummings Price
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

The Buckboard Stranger (1954)

When a slick-talking stranger with a fast rig comes to town, Chuck and Barney get caught up in a mystery. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Paul Calle

The Newcomes (1954)

A vast novel of the Victorian era that centers on Colonel Thomas Newcombe, his son Clive and their relations and friends. The Limited Editions Club version is in two volumes.

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Dark Stranger (1957)

The story of witchcraft and conspiracy during the English Civil War.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Dorothy Charques
Illustrator(s): C. Walter Hodges

Everglades Adventure (1957)

Toby Morgan and his family move to Florida after the Civil War and he becomes a swamp rat and discovers a reclusive Indian tribe.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Charles Beck

The Great Wheel (1957)

Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris Wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding. A prepublication binding in yellow cl... View More

Author(s): Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1958

Myrtle Albertina’s Song (1958)

Myrtle Albertina is only nine, but she makes up a plan to help her Uncle Harvey overcome malicious gossip.

Author(s): Lillian Pohlmann
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

Brady (1960)

A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Jean Fritz
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Buffalo and Beaver (1960)

Jeff Barlow spends a season trapping in the Rockies with his father and hones his painting skills during the long nights. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Charles Beck

Phantom of the Blockade (1962)

Anse O’Neal signs on aboard the Gray Witch as she carries Southern cotton to Bermuda to exchange for guns and ammunition for Lee’s Army of Virginia.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Victor Mays

The Muddy Road to Glory (1963)

Ben Everett joins up with the Twentieth Maine Regiment and fights from Stoneman’s Switch to Appomattox Court House.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): George Hughes

Boy with a Pack (1965)

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

Phantom of the Blockade (1965)

Anse O’Neal signs on aboard the Gray Witch as she carries Southern cotton to Bermuda to exchange for guns and ammunition for Lee’s Army of Virginia.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Victor Mays

The Swing in the Summerhouse (1967)

When two of their friends disappear from the summerhouse, Eleanor and Eddy know they must break their promise and rescue them. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Jane Langton
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

The Life and Adventures of Lady Anne (1969)

The story of an orphan whose aristocratic parents die, leaving her to the parish. The illustrations likely came from Forgotten Tales of Long Ago. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Kate Ryder (1975)

Kate and her family are caught up in the English Civil War.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Hester Burton
Illustrator(s): Victor Ambrus

The Favershams (1982)

A pictorial album illustrating the life of a Victorian family.

Author(s): Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s): Roy Gerrard

Rosie and the Rustlers (1989)

When Greasy Ben rustles Rosie’s cattle, the Cherokee turn out to help her get them back. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s): Roy Gerrard

Early Candlelight (1992)

A story of early pioneer days in St. Paul, when Fort Snelling was on the frontier.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Karen Ritz

Little Women (1993)

Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical children’s book of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy growing up around the time of the Civil War.

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1994)

Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.

Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s): Helen Mason Grose

John Henry (1995)

Now John Henry was a steel driving man.

Author(s): Julius Lester
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1995

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1996)

Huck and Jim, a fugitive slave, travel down the Mississippi. Lost for over a hundred years, the first half of the original manuscript of Mark Twain’s masterpiece was discovered in 1990. It contained additional material, originally cut by the au... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): John Harley
E. W. Kemble

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (1999)

The adventures of an American doll as she travels the world.

Author(s): Rachel Field
Rosemary Wells
Illustrator(s): Susan Jeffers

The Red Badge of Courage (2002)

A young soldier in the Civil War must decide what it means to be brave.

Author(s): Stephen Crane
Illustrator(s): Wendell Minor

Buffalo and Beaver (2004)

Jeff Barlow spends a season trapping in the Rockies with his father and hones his painting skills during the long nights.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Charles Beck

The Old African (2005)

Jaja, the Old African, leads his fellow slaves, walking across the ocean to Africa.

Author(s): Julius Lester
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Away to Sea (2006)

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

The Buckboard Stranger (2006)

When a smooth-talking stranger with a fast rig comes to town, Chuck and Barney are in for a summer of mystery and excitement.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Paul Calle

Longshanks (2006)

Thad Hopkins is going downriver to meet his father in New Orleans when he is unceremoniously thrown in the river by a thief. He is rescued by a flatboat man -- Abe Lincoln.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

The Muddy Road to Glory (2006)

Ben Everett joins up with the Twentieth Maine Regiment and fights from Stoneman’s Switch to Appomattox Court House.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): George Hughes

The Black Angels (2009)

They all loved to sing, except Joseph, so they eagerly fell in with Benjie's plan to form an Operatic and Concert Troupe and go on the road.

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Jingle Bells (2017)

A colorful rendering of the familiar Christmas song.

Author(s): James Lord Pierpont
Illustrator(s): Susan Jeffers

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