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It was 1865. The Civil War had just ended and Union soldiers were patrolling the streets of Chapel Hill, N.C. When a young Union general fell in love with the daughter of former North Carolina governor and then-UNC President David Swain, reaction to their North-South courtship and marriage was swift and often unforgiving. More than a century later, the great-great granddaughter of General Smith Akins and Ella Swain tells the true story of this unlikely and often controversial couple. "Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a …