One hundred fifty years ago today, (April 2, 1865) the Confederate government evacuated Richmond, but not before ordering buildings and structures of military importance burned to prevent the Yankees benefiting from them. Unfortunately, the Richmond City Council's order to also destroy all the city's liquor by dumping it in the gutters only served to spread the fire. By the time the Federal troops contained the blazes after arriving on April 3, twenty city blocks had been destroyed. Very few in the Confederacy held out any hope that the South could survive the loss of its capital. Six days after the Stars & Stripes were raised above Richmond for the first time in four bloody years, General Lee surrendered.
My hope is that those of you who have read Spy of Richmond have some sense of the intense and conflicting emotions the citizens must have felt as they watched their city crumble around them. No matter where their loyalties fell, April 2, 1865, was an awful day.
Give-Away!
To commemorate this momentous day, I've put together a Spy of Richmond-themed give-away which I hope will delight anyone who has read this novel. Here's what's in the package:
- A Harper's Weekly sampler set of news from the Civil War. A nod to the journalist hero Harrison Caldwell.
- The booklet Yanks, Rebels, Rats & Rations: Scratching for Food in Civil War Prison Camps.
- Ten gorgeous Mort Kunstler postcards depicting the Civil War South.
- Famous Women of the Civil War card game, featuring Elizabeth Van Lew and other women you may recognize from previous books in the Heroines Behind the Lines series!
- The novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Our heroine Sophie Kent's favorite book, the inspiration for her writing pseudonym of John Thornton, and ... oh wait, I don't want to spoil the end for those who haven't reach it yet.
- "Harrison's" compact black Bible with "Sophie's" blue ribbon marking Psalm 31.
- PLUS: Original artwork: my husband drew a picture of Sophie Kent on a page of text from the novel. Suitable for a 5x7 frame, but no mat or frame is included. Rob is also the man you can thank for the maps in the front of each novel!
To enter the drawing, please use the Rafflecopter tool below. You will see several ways to earn points, but you only need to choose one of them to be entered. The more points you earn, the better your chances! a Rafflecopter giveaway A winner will be selected on April 9 and notified via email. Winner, you'll have three days to respond to me with your mailing address. Good luck!
Spy of Richmond (Heroines Behind the Lines Civil War Book 4)
432 pages, softcover* Is living a lie ever the right thing to do? The Confederate capital in the height of the Civil War: no place for a Union loyalist. But just the place for a spy. Her father a slaveholder, her suitor a Confederate officer, and herself an abolitionist, Sophie Kent must walk a tightrope of deception in her efforts to end slavery. As suspicion in Richmond rises, Sophie’s espionage becomes more and more dangerous. If her courage will carry her through, what will be lost along the way—her true love, her father, her life? 
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