A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time : Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose
In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family's farm in New York, and headed to Washington DC. As an abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent most of the next several years in Alexandria devising ways to aid recently escaped slaves and hospitalized Union soldiers. This book shapes her diaries and other primary sources into a historical narrative revealing a woman who was alternately brave, self-pitying, foresighted, petty--and all too human
eBook, English, 2017
Potomac Books, Lincoln, UNITED STATES, 2017