Fiction:
Civil War
Passage Through History
Newly
married Elizabeth Dobbs finds herself alone, surrounded by Confederate
sympathizers, on the Missouri/Kansas border, while her husband, Wid fights in
the Union army during the Civil War. She copes with pregnancy and loss of her
child, runs the family farm, and is threatened by armies and guerillas from both
sides. She is insure whom she can trust.
Wid returns at the end of the war,
broken in body and spirit. When he dies, Elizabeth creates a new life for
herself as a businesswoman and community activist. Elizabeth, as an old woman,
looks back on the history she lived through without moving more than five miles
from where she was born.