10 Best Novels About the Civil War

[Linda Anderson]

Three other Civil War novels I have enjoyed are:

1. The Last Confederate Heroes by William Richter (Wild Bill of this forum) which is an extensively footnoted novel about John Wilkes Booth and the plot to kill Lincoln.

2. Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride which won the National Book Award for Fiction about a young boy who is mistaken for a girl and rides with abolitionist John Brown and his band of men.

3. Lincoln by Gore Vidal which is told from the point of view of Seward, Chase, Mary Lincoln, John Hay, Davey Herold and others.