My Vicksburg

Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day, when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night. When Claire Louise discovers her brother, a doctor, tending to a Confederate soldier who is responsible for Robert E. Lee's 'lost order' (causing the South to lose the Battle of Antietam), she is forced to make a difficult choice between family and friends.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction