Thursday, December 12 – Morris County
7:00 p.m. at the Pequannock Library, 477 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains. Registration 973-835-7460
Civil War Women of Compassion, Courage and Grit
Presented by Rich Rosenthal
A story of survival during wartime - not from cannons and bullets - but of life itself. The women who are left at home without adequate means of support and must provide the basic necessities of food and shelter and still impart their values.
Cornelia Hancock, who defies Dorothea Dix, and goes to Gettysburg to assist the wounded soldiers. Sara Pryor, living through the privation and destruction of the south, still has the courage to defy Gen. Sheridan and demand rations for the starving women and children families in her community
Rich Rosenthal has lectured on numerous historical subjects and is president of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table, and one of the founding members, with the pre-eminent New Jersey historian, the late John T. Cunningham, of the North Jersey American Revolution Round Table.
