Morris County - Morristown - Civil War Women of Compassion, Courage, and Grit

Sunday, March 10 – Morris County Civil War Women of Compassion, Courage, and Grit A Lecture by Rich Rosenthal 2 p.m. at the Morristown and Morris Township Library, 1 Miller Road, Morristown, NJ    Join us in the library’s lower level meeting room, for a story of wartime survival—not from cannons and bullets—but from life itself.    Rich Rosenthal, president of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table, has lectured on numerous historical subjects. He was a founding member of the North Jersey American Revolution Round Table, along with pre-eminent New Jersey historian, the late John T. Cunningham.    Mr. Rosenthal will tell us about New Jersey’s own Cornelia Hancock, who defiantly goes to Gettysburg after being rejected as a nurse for being too pretty; Mary Ann Bickerdyke, who set up hospitals and kitchens and even followed General Sherman through the mountains of Georgia on the way to Atlanta; and Sara Pryor, who lived through privation and destruction of the south, but still had the courage to defy General Sheridan and demand rations for the starving families in her community.      Contact James Lewis at 973-538-3473 or njhgc@jfpl.org if you have any questions about this program. This program is supported by the Friends of the Morristown and Morris Township Library.