Start with high-confidence civil war era ya books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
A Sitting in St. James
Rita Williams-Garcia
Rifles for Watie
Harold Keith
Dread Nation
Justina Ireland, Bahni Turpin
Come Juneteenth
Ann Rinaldi
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen
Sarny
The Slopes of War
Norah Perez, N.A. Perez
The Letter Writer
Juliet's Moon
Leigh Ann's Civil War
My Vicksburg
African Town
Charles Waters, Irene Latham
Neptune's Honor
Pamela Bauer Mueller
So Many Beginnings: a Little Women Remix
Bethany C Morrow
Riot
Walter Dean Myers
Crossing Ebenezer Creek
Tonya Bolden
