Gettysburg, July 1863.

As the Battle of Gettysburg engulfs the town, seven women remain.

One Wound, Many Souls: The Women of Gettysburg is a work of historical fiction that tells the story of the Civil War’s most famous battle from the civilian home front. Told through intertwined perspectives, the novel follows seven women—mothers, daughters, healers, believers, refugees, and resisters—whose lives intersect as kitchens become triage rooms, churches become hospitals, and homes are claimed by armies.

As Union and Confederate forces converge, each woman faces a moral choice shaped by survival, faith, loyalty, responsibility, or refusal. A trained woman doctor confronts skepticism even as the wounded flood in. A mother struggles to protect her daughter without extinguishing her courage. A woman aiding fugitives faces an impossible decision. A tavern keeper clings to neutrality as the war presses inward.

Grounded in documented civilian experiences of the Battle of Gettysburg—including requisitioned homes, wartime medical care, and the displacement of noncombatants—One Wound, Many Souls reclaims the Civil War as a story not only of armies, but of the women who endured it.

Spare, intimate, and deeply researched, this ensemble historical novel offers a powerful portrait of women during the Battle of Gettysburg and the lasting cost of war on the home front.