Harboring the Enemy – The Civil War Heroine History Forgot
R.C. Duffy
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical narrative non-fiction, Christian historical non-fiction
Word count: 55,000
Young Anna Pauls crossed an ocean to build a new life in Charleston, South Carolina. When the American Civil War erupts around her, a wounded enemy soldier appears at her door. She must choose between her loyalty and a faith that refuses to see people as enemies. Harboring the Enemy is her breathtaking true story, lost to history until now.
Charleston, South Carolina, 1862. Anna is a young German immigrant widow managing her family’s grocery store on the edge of a city at war. When a Union prisoner escapes and appears at her back door dressed in stolen Confederate gray, she faces a choice that no law, flag, or religious sermon can make for her. She hides him.
Harboring the Enemy is American narrative nonfiction grounded in historical records, family documents, and original archival research. It tells the true story of an ordinary woman whose deeply held Christian faith led her to extraordinary acts of mercy on both sides of the conflict. Those acts could have cost her everything, and history nearly erased them entirely.
This book is written for readers who love character-driven American history and who are comfortable with a protagonist whose moral decisions are shaped by sincere religious conviction. It is not a work of theology, but faith is present throughout.
R.C. Duffy is the author of Harboring the Enemy.
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