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History influenced Cold Mountain
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- American Civil War
The evidence
Charles Frazier based the novel on a family story about his great-great-uncle, a Confederate soldier who walked home to the North Carolina mountains near the end of the Civil War.
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