[Publib] civil war fiction title for young adults

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In a message dated 10/11/2007 2:34:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Kathryn.King at fortworthlibrary.org writes:

I am  trying to find the title of a book.  It takes place during the
civil  war.  One of the main male characters is named  Sedgewick
(Sedgwick?).  If my memory isn't failing me the main  character is female
though.  It takes place in the  South.


Your Sedgwick is probably not this fellow, most likely, though the name  
certainly has its Civil War associations:  
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick) 
 
Perhaps it is this book by Elswyth Thane  (1900-1981):
 
"Yankee Stranger, a  Civil War romance, tells of young Eden Day, 
great-granddaughter of Julian and  Tibby Day, and her romance with Yankee war 
correspondent Cabot Murray. The book  deals intensely with the sorrows and hardships of 
war-ravaged Virginia,  including detailed descriptions of the women's daily life 
tending to the wounded  in Richmond. The historical elements of the story 
also bring out the fascinating  and very true situation of espionage, including 
women's role as spies that hid  notes in their hoop skirts.  
By the time of the Civil  War, members of the Day and Sprague families have 
married each other, and then  first cousins married each other, for some very 
close blood ties between the two  families. A secondary story thus relates the 
love between Sedgwick  Sprague and Sue Day (Eden's sister), a love forbidden 
because they are  double first-cousins, and a story that will be often recalled 
in the later  books." 
M. McGrorty, thusfar unable to achieve reference librarian positions all over 
 our nation.



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