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Author Whitacre, Paula.

Title A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time : Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose
Published Lincoln, UNITED STATES : Potomac Books, 2017

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895.
SUBJECT Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895 fast
Subject Women abolitionists -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography
Women civil rights workers -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography
Suffragists -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography
Quakers -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Quakers
Suffragists
Women
Women abolitionists
Women civil rights workers
Women -- Suffrage
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140282
Alexandria (Va.) -- Biography
Avon (N.Y.) -- Biography
Subject New York (State) -- Avon
United States
Virginia -- Alexandria
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1612349609
9781612349602
9781612349589
1612349587