10 best novels about the US Civil War

5. "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," by Allan Gurganus

Now 95, Lucy Marsden looks back on her marriage at the age of 15 to "Captain" Marsden, a 50-year-old Civil War veteran who was never able to recover from the trauma he experienced during the war and who devoted the rest of his life to reminiscing about it.

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