Best Novels Depicting the Horrors of the Civil War

Six fictional accounts of the brutal reality of the war

I lent out my copies of Beloved and The Killer Angels — I want them back (image credit: the author)

The Antebellum South, the horrible years of the Civil War, and the ugliness of Reconstruction are long in our past but still have an impact on us. These six novels portray these years with startling accuracy. As I reread this post I realized how often I use the words brutal, horrifying…