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In the last decade of her life, Beatty wrote five other novels about the Civil War besides Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee.

In Turn Homeward, Hannalee, Beatty introduces the character Hannalee. At the novel's start, Hannalee is twelve years old. She works in a mill in Roswell, Georgia. When Union troops come, they burn down the mill and carry off the mill workers to the North, forcing them to work for Northerners.

In her notes to Turn Homeward, Hannalee, Beatty takes pains to point out that no one really knows what happened to the mill workers after they were taken north. Charley Skedaddle is about a drummer boy in the Union Army who deserts his regiment. Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey tells of the first battle between ironclad ships. Jayhawker discusses abolitionism. Each of these books displays Beatty's extensive historical research for the backgrounds of her novels.