I Shall Be Near To You: A Novel Author: Erin Lindsay McCabe Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Crown Publishers Release Date: 2014 Pages: 320 Source: This book was given to me as part of the TLC Book Tour in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband in the Union Army, inspired by the letters of a remarkable female soldier who fought in the Civil War. Rosetta doesn't want her new husband, Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father’s side as the son he never had, now that Rosetta is a wife she's told her place is inside with the other women. But Rosetta decides her true place is with Jeremiah, no matter what that means, and to be with him she cuts off her hair, hems an old pair of his pants, and signs up as a Union soldier. ...