Novel on US Civil War

[Sunnypad]

Hi all
The other day I came across a mention of a novel, written by a man, about the US Civil War, I think with the focus on the Confederates. Came out at the same time as Gone With The Wind but missed out on publicity due to GWTW!!

Of course I was foolish and didn't write down the name- DAK?

Thanks!
S

[Ragnar]

Sunnypad,

Dont know a novel that came out around GWTW, but Bernard Cornwell has written a series of 4 novels focusing on a Confederate soldier in the US civil war.

Rebel
Copperhead
Battle Flag
and The Bloody Ground

Ragnar

[AleisterCrowley]

Is it one of these ?
Red Badge of Courage is the famous one , but it predates GWTW
http://www.historynet.com/ten-civil-war-classics.htm

[Sunnypad]

Thanks - it was apparently overshadowed - in terms of sales and release - by GWTW so def published around same time.

[AleisterCrowley]

William Faulkner was writing in the mid 30s -
EG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom,_Absalom!
"Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen."

[Sunnypad]

It's not Failkner as I'd remember that but thanks, I will read this

[AleisterCrowley]

Anything in here ring a bell?
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/the-best-civil-war-novels-before-1957-have-you-read-at-least-one.120111/


-particularly;
William Faulkner, The Unvanquished (1938)
MacKinlay Kantor, Long Remember (1934)
Andrew Lytle, The Long Night (1936)
Allen Tate, The Fathers (1938)
Stark Young, So Red the Rose (1934)
Clifford Dowdey, Bugles Blow No More (1937)
Edgar Lee Masters, The Tide of Time (1937)

[RowdyReptile]

Although not exactly what you are looking for, this book is a good read. Non fiction history category though, and not a novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Ghosts-Rebe ... 0883940922

Interesting historical account that isn't talked about a lot.

RR

[poundcoin]

This novel about the Civil War was published in 1937
Boys in Blue by Royce Briar

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/ ... edir_esc=y

[Sunnypad]

thanks so much for all the suggestions
for some reason I missed Aleister's post with a few suggestions on so along with all others that are in print, I've added them to my reading list.

you know the thing about the Twitter world is you see things so fast - I'm pretty sure if I see it again I will instantly say "That's it" but thank for all the efforts and for adding some great looking stuff to the reading list, I really appreciate it.

so good that DAK is still here to provide this

[AleisterCrowley]

Don't take them as recommendations ,as (shamefully) I've read precisely none from that list!
The only 'Civil War' one I've read is 'In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead' - which is set in the 1990s with 'hallucinated' civil war sections. So it doesn't count...

[Sunnypad]

Aleister, I didn't think you had read them all, but it's cool. I studied the period in depth at A level but oddly haven't read anything of that time since Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain - which I can heartily recommend.

Winter is always a time when I need immersive reading from another time so good to have a list.

[Sunnypad]

with muchos apologies to AC, I found out - it is indeed Stark Young So Red the Rose so you had the answer all along!

I owe you a DAK answer. Thanks.