Fire and Forgiveness

Martha Dunsky

Description

A captivating tale about forgiveness and peacemaking based on first-person accounts of true events

Making peace with her spiteful classmate, Clara, seems impossible to Jane. Despite encouragement from Mother Baptista, the mother superior at their convent school, Jane and Clara dig in their heels. As the girls brood they hear the cannons of the Civil War explode outside their school as General Sherman and the Union army attack the city of Columbia, South Carolina, in February 1865.

Mother Baptista asks Sherman for protection for her nuns and students, and he promises they will be safe inside their convent school. But despite his promise they have to flee in the middle of the night through a chaotic, burning city. Will Mother Baptista forgive Sherman for breaking his promise? Can Jane and Clara make peace when the adults in their world are at odds and at war?

Set during the most deadly and divisive war in U.S. history, this compelling story is based on first-person accounts of true events. Fire and Forgiveness is a reminder of the important role forgiveness and peacemaking play in life's conflicts big and small, whether between quarreling children, proud adults, or warring nations.

Sujets

• Guerre de Sécession
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• États confédérés d'Amérique
• Conflict
• Humiliation
• Manuscript
• History
• Joseph E. Johnston
• United States
• In the Bedroom
• Union Navy
• American Civil War
• Confederate States of America
• Slavery
• Cemetery
• Forgiveness
• Slavery in the United States
• Confederate States Army
• Union Army
• Hardtack
• Peacemaking
• Hampton-Preston House
• Estados Confederados de América
• En la habitación
• Ejército de la Unión
• Ejército de los Estados Confederados
• Children's

Informations

• Publié par: University of South Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 19 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781611179866
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Fire and Fo rgiveness
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© 2019 Martha Dunsky Caprarotta
Publi shed by the Un iversity of South Caro lina Pr ess
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
www .sc.edu/uscpr ess
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-P ubli cation Data can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/.
ISBN 978-1-61117-985-9 (hardco ver)
ISBN 978-1-61117-986-6 (ebook)
Dedicated to all peacemakers.