He hasn’t informed Isabelle yet and was hoping to delay the delivery of the dreadful news to his wife by finding comfort in the woods. He just learned that his only son, Caleb, who joined the war, has perished in the frontlines after deserting the Confederate Army. There was, however, a burden that weighed on him when he stepped into the woods that day. Roaming around the woodlands near his home was Walker’s routine it was a means of recreation for him. At the start of the story, he was aimlessly wandering in the woods near his estate, in search of a monster: “A black coat of fur that clung to the shadows, moving fluidly as if it were part of the darkness itself.” Walker was originally from New England but moved to the Deep South where he married Isabelle. The story commenced with George Walker, a wealthy landowner. Set in the fictional town of Old Ox in Georgia, the novel endeavored to capture the changes in tides that took place immediately after the culmination of the Civil War. The book also went on to win an award, the National Book Award.Ĭontinuing this long and strong literary tradition is Nathan Harris who captured the adverse effect of the War in his debut novel, The Sweetness of Water. Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain (1997) also captured the ill effects of the war through the story of two star-crossed lovers. One book that comes to mind is Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone with the Wind (1936), widely regarded as a literary classic. Over the years, several novels about the war have been published, some even earning global recognition. It is the war’s role in shaping modern American history that has made it, and its consequences, an irresistible subject for writers. The fight for supremacy between the Confederate Army and the Union has highlighted the rift between the north and the deep south, the vestiges of which continue to reverberate in the contemporary. The American Civil War (Apto April 9, 1865) is one of the most storied and seminal historical events that has characterized modern American history.

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