My Vicksburg

As her family hides in a cave during a Civil War battle, a girl faces a difficult choice in this "thoroughly researched and enjoyable historical novel" ( Booklist ). Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day-when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night...