The Ties of The Past: Sally Myers

The Ties of the Past:
The Gettysburg Diaries of Salome Myers Stewart

By Sally Sites Thomas

ISBN: 1-5774791-1
304 pages, 6 x 9, Softcover

Salome “Sally” Myers was a young girl in Gettysburg when the Civil War invaded her town. Sally put aside her fears and pitched in to help the large number of wounded soldiers as a nurse. The diaries she left behind give a glimpse of life in Gettysburg and the role many women played during the war to comfort the casualties.