Martha Dunsky and Monica Wyrick will autograph copies of Fire and Forgiveness: A Nun’s Truce with General Sherman on Saturday, February 23 in downtown Columbia, SC. Join the author and illustrator of the new children’s book about the burning of Columbia from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm at Mast General Store on 1601 Main St ; and from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm at the South Carolina State Museum on 301 Gervais St .
Pick up your copy of this thrilling account of the brave young girls forced to flee the Ursuline Convent School during the Civil War burning of Columbia. Discover the surprising true story of Mother Baptista Lynch’s encounter with General William T. Sherman. Learn lessons of peacemaking for all ages.
Fire and Forgiveness: A Nun’s Truce with General Sherman is published February 19, 2019 by the University of South Carolina Press.