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“Howard Bahr is an excellent writer, but his fiction isn’t as well known as that of other writers on my list. That’s a shame, as The Judas Field is one of the best Civil War novels published during the twenty-first century. In particular, it does a fine job of responding to the human legacy of America’s military conflicts. Set in the mid-1880s, the frame narrative portrays the return of three Confederate veterans to the battlefield at Franklin, Tennessee. Tasked by a friend with recovering the bodies of her long-buried father and brother, soldiers killed in the 1864 battle, the men are overwhelmed with flashbacks of the horrific fighting years earlier. The narrative sways back and forth between the present day and the war twenty years earlier, and in doing so documents the psychic damage left in the wake of an awful trauma.” Read more...
Classic Novels of the American Civil War
Craig A. Warren, Literary Scholar
