Description In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family\'s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC.
A Civil Life in an UnCivil Time shapes Wilbur\'s diaries and other primary sourc.
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 the next several years in Alexandria, Virginia, devising ways to aid recently escaped slaves and hospitalized Union soldiers.
Description In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family\'s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC