Book SynopsisGeorgia 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 a sweeping epic of the Civil War’s ravages on
family and love, the resilient bonds of sisterhood amid devastation, and
the miracle of reconciliation between bitter enemies.
“Gone With The Wind meets A League Of Their Own.”
1856. Sixteen-year-old Nannie Colquitt Hill makes her debut in the
antebellum society of the Chattahoochee River plantations. A thousand
miles to the north, a Wisconsin farm boy, Hugh LaGrange, joins an
Abolitionist crusade to ban slavery in Bleeding Kansas.
Five years later, secession and total war against the homefronts of
Dixie hurl them toward a confrontation unrivaled in American history.
Nannie defies the traditions of Southern gentility by forming a
women’s militia and drilling it four long years to prepare for battle. With their men dead, wounded, or retreating with the Confederate armies,
only Captain Nannie and her Fighting Nancies stand between their
beloved homes and the Yankee torches.
Hardened into a slashing Union cavalry colonel, Hugh duels Rebel
generals Joseph Wheeler and Nathan Bedford Forrest across Tennessee and
Alabama. As the war churns to a bloody climax, he is ordered to drive a
burning stake deep into the heart of the Confederacy.
Yet one Georgia town—which by mocking coincidence bears Hugh’s last name—stands defiant in his path.
Read the remarkable story of the Southern women who formed America’s
most famous female militia and the Union officer whose life they changed
forever.
Author Bio
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, and has served as president of the Southern
California Chapter of the Historical Novel Society.
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