![]() ![]() The war brought huge issues of conscience for the townsfolk, a few of whom sacrificed their nonviolent principles to raise a regiment to fight on the Union side. The village was Quaker, and abolitionist, but in the midst of the Confederacy. ![]() There are bullet scars on the bricks of the Baptist church where a skirmish took place we have a Union soldier’s belt buckle that was unearthed near the old well in our courtyard. In the early 1990s we came to live in a small Virginia village where Civil War history is all around us. ![]() Although you say you’re not sure “when or where” it happened, would you talk a bit about your change of heart and what led to your new and profound interest in the American Civil War and eventually to the writing of March? In your afterword, you make an amusing apology to your husband, a well-known writer and Civil War afficionado, for your previous lack of appreciation for his passion. ![]()
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