A House Divided - (Chaparral Books) by Marj Gurasich (Paperback)

About the Book

After one brother is killed by Confederate vigilantes, Louisa, youngest daughter in a German American family living in Texas, sets off to rescue another brother from a Union prison camp.

Book Synopsis

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."--A. Lincoln

Continuing the saga told in Letters to Oma of the von Scholls, a German family immigrating to Texas in 1847, A House Divided tells the story of the effect of the Civil War on German Texans who frowned on slavery and, like Sam Houston, thought the Union must be preserved at all costs.

The von Scholl family is split apart when two brothers choose different sides--Will joining the Confederacy and Fred refusing to fight. When Fred is killed by renegade southerners and Will captured by Union soldiers, sixteen-year-old Louisa--Tina's baby sister in Letters to Oma--masquerades as a hospital orderly to rescue Will from his Yankee prison. Louisa's adventuresome story stands for that of over 800 women, on both sides, who actually went to war during this tragic conflict.

About the Author

Marj Gurasich is the author of Letters to Oma, Red Wagons and White Canvas, Benito and the White Dove, and Did You Ever Meet a Texas Hero? She lives in the Houston area.