In the last decade of her life, Beatty wrote five other novels about the Civil War besides Who Comes with Cannons?

Charley Skedaddle is about a drummer boy in the Union army who deserts it.

In Turn Homeward, Hannalee and Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee, Beatty shows the effects of the Civil War on the South.

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.