Continuing my series about Harriet Jacobs’s Civil War work among refugees in Alexandria, Virginia, I have a new post today at The New York Times Disunion blog.

For her part, at least in one respect Julia Wilbur was grateful to have left Alexandria for a time in Jacobs’s hands. “Perhaps it is best that I am away now,” she admitted to Barnes, “for if I should get too mad I might get into a fight with the Rev. Albert Gladwin.”