Civil War Novels Set among Northern Civilians
Novels set among civilians in the North are sometimes far from the front, but sometimes right in the thick of combat (as in Mackinlay Kantor's Long Remember).
- Adams, William Taylor. The Soldier Boy. 1863. [Massachusetts]
- Baker, Kevin. Paradise Alley. 2002. [New York City]
- Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter. 1998. [upstate New York]
- Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm. 1999. [Delaware]
- Honig, Donald. Walk Like a Man. 1961. [Long Island]
- Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils. 1964. [Illinois]
- Jakes, John. The Titans. 1976. [NYC; Washington DC]
- Kantor, Mackinlay. Long Remember. 1934. [Pennsylvania]
- Lunn, Janet. The Root Cellar. 1981. [Ontario]
- Lytle, Robert A. A Pitch in Time. 2002. [Michigan]
- Nixon, Joan Lowery. Keeping Secrets. 1995. [Missouri]
- Peck, Richard. The River Between Us. 2003. [Illinois]
- Pryor, Bonnie. Joseph 1861 -- A Rumble of War. 1999. [Kentucky]
- Quinn, Peter. Banished Children of Eve. 1994. [New York City]
- Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo. Who Would Have Thought It? 1872. [New England; NYC; Washington DC]
- Warren, Robert Penn. Wilderness. 1961. [NYC, Pennsylvania]
- Wright, Stephen. The Amalgamation Polka. 2006. [New York]