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Kirkus Reviews: A tantalizingly kaleidoscopic look at an event that altered its witnesses' lives forever. Six witnesses relate their divergent interpretations of a violent incident that took place during the Civil War in this novel based on true stories.Caroline Anderson lives in Greenbrier County, Virginia, at the Elmhurst house, a "magnificent place" before the Civil War erupted. President Martin Van Buren once picnicked there, but it has since decayed into ruins from neglect.Caroline's husband, John, suddenly joins the Confederate Army, never to be seen or heard from again, leaving her to fend for herself and her two stepchildren, 8-year-old Sally and glum teenager Samuel. When bedraggled Union soldiers come marching through town, a group of them forcibly enters Caroline's home, first looking for medical supplies and then a reprieve from their nomadic discomfort.On May 22, 1863, while Elmhurst is occupied by "horrid Yankees," a "dreadful incident" occurs, one that leaves two men, one of them a…
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- Title Lies Based on True Stories
- Author Courtney Soling Smith
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- Publisher Quarrier Press
- Date 2016-12
- ISBN 9781942294092
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