The Widow's War

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PRINTING HISTORY
Berkley trade paperback edition / September 2009

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mackey, Mary.
The widow’s war / Mary Mackey.—Berkley trade paperback ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-101-14008-6

1. Abolitionists—Fiction. 2. Women and war—Fiction. 3. African American soldiers—
Fiction. 4. Kansas—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.A3165W53 2009
813’.54—dc22 2009021032