The Yankee Widow by Linda Lael Miller

She's a young woman staying at home on the farm with her child and the hired help.  Her husband is fighting in the Civil War.  He gets injured and she's going after him to bring him home.  He awakens to tell her how much he loves her and then he dies.  She's a young widow now...

Mira and Net Galley let me read this book for review (thank you).  It is being published today.

It's a good thing she has her hired hand.  He protects her just like Jacob did.  She tries to go on as life did before but she's sorrowful over the loss of her husband.  The first thing that happens is that the hired hand saves a slave that's being pursued by a slave catcher who wants the reward on her.  Enoch, the hired hand, disagrees and ends up killing the man.  When the rest of the slave catchers show up, they have the pregnant girl hidden in a secret compartment.  They had been part of the Underground Railroad in the past.  

Then soldiers come to her farm and settle on her grounds.  They don't bother her but she can't listen to the men moan and not help with the injured.  As she does, she gets to know the man in charge and she grows to like him a lot.  It's almost love.  But then he gives her a Confederate to take care of and she takes him in the house because he's injured so badly.  Then he manages to kiss her and that creates a real problem for her.  She beginning to love him, too.

She doesn't give up or break even when things are bad.  There are some good things happening, too.  

You really get a good view of the war and how deadly it was.  It was bloody, horses and men were killed or maimed.  Many of the men were missing limbs.  As she helped them as best she could, she got worn from the worry and care required.  You can feel her despair as so many die.  Eventually the war is over.  Will either man come back for her?  Read the story and see.