Civil
War Love Letters Presented
by Waterford
Women's Club
Free
and open to the public
Author
Lisa Saunders will present Civil War love letters from her book, Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife
published by Heritage Books, to the Waterford Women's Club. The public is
invited to attend.
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, 11 a.m.
Presentation: “Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife”
Waterford Library, lower level
Admission: Free and open to the public
The Waterford Women's Club is hosting Lisa Saunders of
Mystic, author of Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife,
which features the love letters between Lisa’s great-great grandparents,
Charles and Nancy McDowell. Charles
married Nancy when she was 15 years old. Enlisting as a private in the New York
9th Heavy Artillery two years later, he asked Nancy to save his
letters. Despite his grueling battles and marches, he was able to save hers as
well. Together, their letters tell of bullets, hangings, prostitutes, venereal
disease, typhoid fever, lying injured on the battlefield for days, “clever women,”
and the court marshalling of a cow. Ever
True is also a one-act play. (Charles fought in several battles with the 2nd
Connecticut Heavy Artillery in the Sixth Corps.)
Photo caption:
Author Lisa Saunders of
Mystic presents the Civil War love letters featured in the book, Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife, published
by Heritage Books. Photo by Collette Fournier. 
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