Pendleton farm Author:Anne Kathryn Killinger This is a story for anyone who still finds romance and buetyin the life of the old south. Set on a magnificent plantation called Pendleton farm, it becomes a true picture of the hardships and strggles of the women left benind to manage the lage estates beingravaged by the Civil War. — Becky, the narrator is one of the great unsung heroines of the... more » period, mounting above personal hurt and tragedy to guide and care for those around her. With the help of Darky Jim, an indispensable negro servant she manages to hide a wunded Unionofficer, Colonel Josiah MacCarter, from vngeful Confederate forces, eventually falling in love and mrrying him
Learning that runaway slaves are being sheltered by other negroes on Pendleton, Becky and Colonel MacCarter resolve to aid them, and actually travel with them on their dangerous journeyto freedom. As the war winds down to its grueling close, Becky and the colonel become involved in establishing humane standards of life and learning for the former slaves.« less