Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War

I really enjoyed this novel about the Civil War, which was told from a much different perspective than what I'm used to. And it was the perfect hurricane reading.

The novel is fiction but it revolves around some actual historical figures: Charles Francis Adams (son of John Quincy), who was the US Minister to Great Britain during the war, his son Henry, and various other British and American government types. The main fictional characters are Miss Julia Birch, a wealthy young lady who's father is helping the Confederates, and Baxter Sams, a Harvard classmate of Henry's and a Virginian.

Yes there is a love story, but it's really secondary. The main focus of the novel is the relations between America and Britain during the war.

Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War