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Summary Of Suzy Barile's Undaunting Heart

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The bitterness the southerners and northerners felt towards each other did not subside even after the Civil War ended, and this comes into vivid detail in Suzy Barile’s (great-great-granddaughter of Ella Swain and Smith Atkins) Undaunting Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle & A Yankee General. The novel is a historical account of the tumultuous courtship and marriage of Ella (from North Carolina) Smith (from Illinois) and the scandal that preceded and followed them.

The book’s most timely message is the historical aspects of the rebuilding of a country -- two sides, North and South, still steeped in the still remaining feelings of hostility centered around the violence of the War and the ending of slavery. It is a well-crafted, rich
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