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The Cotillion Brigade

(A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History)

By Glen Craney

 

 

Georgia burns.

Sherman’s Yankees are closing in.

Will the women of LaGrange run or fight?

 

Based on the true story of the celebrated Nancy Hart Rifles, The Cotillion Brigade is an epic novel of the Civil War’s ravages on family and love, the resilient bonds of sisterhood in devastation, and the miracle of reconciliation between bitter enemies.

 

“Gone With The Wind meets A League Of Their Own.”

-- John Jeter, The Plunder Room

 

1856. Sixteen-year-old Nannie Colquitt Hill makes her debut in the antebellum society of the Chattahoochee River plantations. A thousand miles north, a Wisconsin farm boy, Hugh LaGrange, joins an Abolitionist crusade to ban slavery in Bleeding Kansas.

 

Five years later, secession and war against the homefront hurl them toward a confrontation unrivaled in American history.

 

Two very different people caught up in a Civil War that would change American history forever.

Nannie is a spoilt young woman whose head is filled with dreams of marriage. Hugh is a farmer with an opinion. These two, unlike people, will be forced to cross paths and when they do... Shh! I am not going to give away any spoilers.

This novel is set before and during the American Civil War. It tells the story of how a town of Southern Belles took up arms to defend their home. It also tells the fascinating story of Hugh who was destined to become a Colonel of the Union Army. This book is all the more brilliant because it is based on a true story. It is a story about a terrible war, sacrifice, hope and a determination on both sides to fight for what they believed in.

I thought this book was brilliant from beginning to end. It is rich in history, rich in drama, and rich in narrative. I really enjoyed this book and I will certainly be looking out for more novels by this author.

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A graduate of Indiana University School of Law and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Glen Craney practiced trial law before joining the Washington, D.C. press corps to write about national politics and the Iran-contra trial for Congressional Quarterly magazine. In 1996, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences awarded him the Nicholl Fellowship prize for best new screenwriting. His debut historical novel, The Fire and the Light, was named Best New Fiction by the National Indie Excellence Awards. He is a three-time Finalist/Honorable Mention winner of Foreword Magazine’s Book-of-the-Year and a Chaucer Award winner for Historical Fiction. His books have taken readers to Occitania during the Albigensian Crusade, the Scotland of Robert Bruce, Portugal during the Age of Discovery, the trenches of France during World War I, the battlefields of the Civil War, and the American Hoovervilles of the Great Depression. He lives in Malibu, California.

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