The Lady and the Officer

Books by Mary Ellis

C
IVIL
W
AR
H
EROINES
S
ERIES

The Quaker and the Rebel

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T
HE
N
EW
B
EGINNINGS
S
ERIES

Living in Harmony

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Love Comes to Paradise

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A Little Bit of Charm

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T
HE
W
AYNE
C
OUNTY
S
ERIES

Abigail's New Hope

A Marriage for Meghan

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HE
M
ILLER
F
AMILY
S
ERIES

A Widow's Hope

Never Far from Home

The Way to a Man's Heart

S
TANDALONES

Sarah's Christmas Miracle

An Amish Family Reunion

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Cover by Garborg Design Works, Savage, Minnesota

Cover photos © Chris Garborg; Volodymyr Miaskovskyj / Bigstock

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE LADY AND THE OFFICER

Copyright © 2014 by Mary Ellis

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ellis, Mary,

The lady and the officer / Mary Ellis.

pages cm – – (Civil War heroines series ; book 2)

ISBN 978-0-7369-5054-1 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-5055-8 (eBook)

1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3626.E36L34 2014

813'.6—dc23

2014000544

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D
EDICATION

This book is dedicated to my husband, Ken, who stomped around an inordinate number of battlefields, museums, monuments, cemeteries, historical inns, and bed-and-breakfasts for years in the name of research.

The man also patiently slammed on the brakes at a countless number of roadside historical markers.

A
CKNOWLEDGMENTS

•
Thanks to Mary Elizabeth Massey's book
Women in the Civil War
, Phoebe Yates Pember's
A Southern Woman's Story—Life in Confederate Richmond
, and Bell Irvin Wiley's
Confederate Women
for inspiration for my fictional characters. Thanks also to Harold Elk Straubing's
In Hospital and Camp
and Louisa May Alcott's
Hospital Sketches
.