Tennessee

Jill has another suggestion for Tennessee: "My favorite story about Tennessee is Widow of the South by Robert Hicks - a fictional account of the Battle of Franklin and the McGavock Plantation."

Five of the bloddiest hours of the Civil War occurred in 1864 during the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. Carrie McGavock's farmhouse was commandeered as a Confederate field hospital, four generals lay dead on her back porch, and the pile of amputated limbs rose as tall as the smoke house. There were 9,200 casualties that fateful day. Because McGavock spent the rest of her life mourning those lost, eventually reburying nearly 1,500 of them on her property, she became known as "the widow of the South." Robert Hicks's first historical novel captures the life-altering force that war exerts even on noncombatants.

Jill, this book is certainly more readable that the one I suggested, Summons to Memphis. Good call.