The Velvet Shadow Book

Kathleen continues with the research on the O'Connor women after the professor dies suddenly. This time the story is about Flanna O'Connor, a SC woman finishing medical school in Boston just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Roger Haynes is a prominent Boston attorney with political aspirations and he decides Flanna should be his wife. Flanna is absorbed in passing her medical exams so she can set up a women's practice with his father in Charleston, SC.

When the war comes, she's stranded in Boston. Finished with medical school, she tries to help, but is suspect because she's from SC. She finally enlists as a man in Roger's brother Alden's MA regiment as a means to head south. She survives and thrives, but still tries to do some medicine for her comrades. She becomes known as the velvet shadow for her night time care of the sick and wounded. She and Alden finally get together and both survive the war. Their decendent is Taylor Morgan, the professor's assistant. Well done, clean read.