[sanantonioalex]

I found a new novel out about the Union Militia's atrocities against people in southeastern Missouri, by a major publisher (Morrow/Harper Collins) called Enemy Women, I kept on reading waiting for the fat southern bigot, the mealy-mouthed abused ladywife who says 'Doan hit me, Enenezer' and the hot little number seducing innocent black men, the tobacco-chewing and spitting Johnny Reb with a turkey feather in his forage cap, etc. etc. and by golly they weren't there. She's found facts about women relatives/wives of Confederates thrown into prison, it was given a rave review by NYT (!!) and People --- and there ain't no N----- hating lynching bigots in it! Maybe they had too many vodka and snapples for lunch or something, but there it is.

[Non-Sequitur]

As you pointed out, it is a novel and not a work of non-fiction.