Higgins, Joanna

A fictional diary of Union soldier Ira Cahill Stevens, telling of his feelings and experiences as an inmate in a desperately overcrowded Confederate prison camp in 1864.

In 1793, fifteen-year-old Eugenie de la Roque, her family, and other nobles barely escape the French Revolution and arrive in Pennsylvania, where homesick young Hannah Kimbrell, a Shaker, is among those charged with preparing New France for the aristocrats' arrival.