The First Lady and the Rebel | 
so-soHigginbotham's novel takes the familiar Civil War story of brother-versus-brother and offers a fresh, sad version: sisters Mary and Emily Todd. Mary would marry Abraham Lincoln while Emily would marry a General in the Confederate Army. My only real quibble is the distance from the unpalatable beliefs of Emily (and mostly likely Mary); we rarely get more than an emphasis on 'honor', and issues and beliefs about slavery are barely touched.
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