The Dream Divided — Nancy Niblack Baxter

The new edition of this much praised novel chronicles two southern Indiana regiments: the Fourteenth Indiana and the Eightieth Indiana, their officers, men, life-and-death battles and challenges and the fortunes of their kinfolks at home. It s a realistic and often dramatic story of the idealistic recruits, the advancement-seekers, the Copperheads who opposed the war effort, the struggles to survive and the lives and loves of the women of the soldiers lives. Set in both the North and South, it s an epic whose accurate historical details and colorful characters mark it as one of the state s finest period novels.