Start with high-confidence civil war era for teens books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Sugar Changed the World
Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos
Hanged!
Sarah Miller
A Most Perilous World
Kristina R. Gaddy
Freedom on the Sea
Michael Boulware Moore
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Kathleen Van Cleve
Passenger on the Pearl
Winifred Conkling
