Lisa Saunders will present “Civil War Letters of a Union Private to His Teenage Wife” on September 12th at 1:00pm. Charles McDowell married Nancy when she was 15 on Christmas Eve of 1860. Enlisting in the Union Army shortly thereafter, their letters tell of bullets, battles, marches, hangings, prostitutes, venereal disease, “clever women,” meeting President Lincoln, and the court marshaling of a cow. Their greatgreat granddaughter, Lisa Saunders, gives the audience a behind-the-scenes look into their letters and lives in her book, Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife.