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106I – Amish and the Civil War: An Interview with Jan Drexler
Our guest today is Jan Drexler, a historical novelist whose stories often feature Amish characters. Today we talk about the challenges and choices Plain folk faced during the Civil War. Jan is a Civil War buff and traces her family history back through the Amish of the 1700s, so she brings a unique take to her stories.
She used census records and Ancestry.com to find out more about her family, and tried to figure out how and where her family moved away from Amish traditions. In her latest book, The Sound of Distant Thunder, she uses both history of the Amish church and the history of the…
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