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Author Whitacre, Paula.

Title A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time : Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose.

Publication Info. 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.
Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895.
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Women abolitionists -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography.
Women abolitionists.
Virginia -- Alexandria.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women civil rights workers -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography.
Women civil rights workers.
Suffragists -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography.
Suffragists.
Quakers -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Biography.
Quakers.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Suffrage.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Alexandria (Va.) -- Biography.
Avon (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Suffragettes.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Whitacre, Paula Tarnapol. Civil Life in an Uncivil Time. Lincoln, UNITED STATES : Potomac Books, 2017 1612348556 9781612348551 (OCoLC)983400693
ISBN 1612349609 (electronic book)
9781612349602
9781612349589
1612349587
1612348556
1612349587
9781612348551