{"product_id":"undaunted-heart-the-true-story-of-a-southern-belle-a-yankee-general-9780982077115","title":"Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle \u0026 a Yankee General","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a brigade of General Sherman's victorious army marched into Chapel Hill the day after Easter 1865, the Civil War had just ended and President Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated. Citizens of the picturesque North Carolina college town had endured years of hardship and sacrifice, and now the Union army was patrolling its streets. One of Sherman's young generals paid a visit to the stately home of David Swain, president of the University of North Carolina and a former governor of the state, to inform him that the town was now under Union occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst this unlikely backdrop began a passionate and controversial love story still vivid in town lore. When President Swain's daughter Ella met the Union general, life for these two young people who had spent the war on opposite sides was forever altered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Smith Atkins of Illinois abhorred slavery and greatly admired Abraham Lincoln. Spirited young Ella Swain had been raised in a slave-owning family and had spent the war years gathering supplies to send to Confederate soldiers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, as a close friend of the Swain's wrote, when Atkins met Ella, the two \"changed eyes at first sight and a wooing followed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reaction of the Swains and fellow North Carolinians to this North-South love affair was swift and often unforgiving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUndaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General\u003c\/em\u003e, author Suzy Barile, a great-great-granddaughter of Ella Swain and Smith Atkins, tells their story, separating facts from the elaborate embellishments the famous courtship and marriage have taken on over the generations. Interwoven throughout \u003cem\u003eUndaunted Heart\u003c\/em\u003e are excerpts from Ella's never-before-published letters to her parents that reveal a loving marriage that transcended differences and scandal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle \u0026amp; a Yankee General\u003c\/em\u003e has received a Silver IPPY Award for Best Regional Non-Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzy Barile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eno Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780982077115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarile, Suzy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - After a 25-year career as a newspaper reporter and editor, Suzy Barile taught English and journalism at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina, until she retired recently. She is a graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned a master's degree from North Carolina State University. She lives in Harmony, North Carolina, where she is working on her next book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eno Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":66855809974387,"sku":"9780982077115","price":25.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_89a30949-a721-4e80-b4bc-3fd876976dea.jpg?v=1791894752","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/undaunted-heart-the-true-story-of-a-southern-belle-a-yankee-general-9780982077115","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}