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Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

4.0

This was so well put together. We meet Cathy Williams toward the end of the Civil War, when she is "requisitioned" as a cook for the Union army, under General Sheridan. Cathy is the granddaughter of an Amazon queen, tall and muscular. As a recently freed Black woman, she is swept up in the end of the Civil War and opts to conceal her gender and join up with the peacetime army. Sarah Bird doesn't write a lot (in the galley, at least) about why she chose to pursue this story, or how much of it is based in fact, or whether it's even possible for us to know ANYTHING about women who served in the Buffalo Soldiers branch of the U.S. Calvary after the Civil War, but the tale she weaves is compelling and unputdownable. At 400 pages, this book breezed by. Definitely recommended for history aficionados.