Paula Tarnapol Whitacre

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time

Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose

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Produktbeschreibung

The biography of Julia Wilbur, who left her conventional life to aid newly freed slaves, injured Union soldiers, and, later, the women’s suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781640123113
• ISBN-10: 1640123113
• Artikelnr.: 58021324

Autorenporträt

Paula Tarnapol Whitacre is a professional writer and editor for organizations including the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, she is a former U.S. Foreign Service officer and staff writer for the Washington Post. Visit her website paulawhitacre.com.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: “The Saddest Sound I Ever Heard”
Part 1. Before the War
1. “A Peculiar Period in My Pilgrimage”
2. “Slavery Is an Evil That Ought Not to Exist”
3. “My Plans Overthrown. Life All Changed.”
4. “At Alexandria . . . the Potomac Rolls Its Majestic Stream”
Part 2. During the War
5. “Civil War Is Upon Us”
6. “My Way Seems Clear to Go”
7. “What a Place I Have Found”
8. “Mrs. J and I May Carry Out Our Plans”
9. “An Interfering and Troublesome Person”
10. “I Wish to . . . Fight It Through”
11. “Will It Pay?”
12. “As Good a Spot as Could Be Obtained”
13. “Things as Usual, Quite Unsettled”
14. “Flung My Flag to the Breeze”
Part 3. After the War
15. “The Paraphernalia of War Is Fast Disappearing”
16. “That I Might Be There to See”
Epilogue: “The Burial Was at Avon”
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Abbreviated Wilbur Family History
Notes
Bibliography
Index