In August 1862 during the darkest days of the American Civil War Osgood Tracy volunteers to fight for the North, leaving behind the love of his life for the fiery frontlines, enduring tragedy, imprisonment, and escape and a physical, uncertain journey back. On the home front, Nellie Sedgwick fights her own battles, fraught with calamity, guilt, and courtships, she dutifully represents the North in Syracuse and Washington, D.C., all the while working to come to grips with a decision that may haunt her forever. FIGHTING FOR NELLIE, a historical novel based upon one of the largest private letter caches in the country, written by a direct descendant, is a page-turning story swirling with passion and jealousy, abolitionists and rebels, war heroes and villains and the quest for undying love, whispering All Quiet on the Western Front and Cold Mountain, from a Northerner's perspective.