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August 20, 2017

“Cry, laugh, and applaud as you relive the remarkable life of Mary Ann Strong Connell beloved daughter, wife, mother, friend, and gifted writer.”

-Robert Khayat author of The Education of a Lifetime

The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life Under Occupation in the Upper South

Edited by Minoa Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, and Phyllis Smith
University of Tennessee Press
208 pages
$29.95

“A useful volume to Civil War historians and women’s history scholars alike, The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy pulls back the curtain on upper-middle-class family life and social relations in a mid-sized Middle Tennessee town during the Civil War and reveals the slow demise of slavery during the Union occupation.”

~ the publisher

An Unforeseen Life