Hearts Divided by Joanne Sundell

This book is a part soap opera, part history set in the Civil War. The war divides families, lovers, sisters, brothers, and the Virginia community in general.  The Quakers in the community refuse to fight.  Surry and Willa are friends, but are separated by race and by their beliefs in the usefulness of slavery.  Willa goes off to fight in the war after both her brothers are killed.  She disguises her self as a man.  After Surry's father is killed because he is a black slave and owner of some tools a black man can't possess, she and her brother and sisters take off to the North.  She becomes divided from part of her family when her brother and sister are captured and returned to the plantation.  Willa becomes friendly with the Quakers, especially Levi, who later helps Surry and her sister escape to the north.  

I almost needed a roadmap and a list of characters to help keep the plot straightened out.  There are supposed to be 3 more books following this one, but I think one will be enough for me.  There were more entanglements than I could keep up with.