Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose
by
Paula Tarnapol Whitacre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family’s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent most of the next several years in Alexandria...