A Sunday College Began
By the point Robert E. Lee surrendered the Military of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, Celestia Anne Hunt was two weeks from turning twenty-one. As Union troops repopulated the war-weary capitol metropolis, one man caught her consideration as they attended companies at E Avenue Baptist Church: a good-looking corporal from New Jersey named Abraham Ferris.
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