I've never been a modern fiction reader, but I stumbled across this reference to a new book that might be of some interest to our readers on this message board.

Book Review
Love, death and the Civil War in "Landsman"
By Susan Larson
New Orleans Times-Picayune
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003785113&zsection_id=2003680485&slug=landsman120&date=20070712

Jim