A Yellow Fever Scare and a Train to Canada: A Mobile Childhood Recalled
A serialized memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, born Elizabeth Zoe Walsh in 1892, recalled a yellow fever scare that sent her north by rail and a Mobile childhood spent between…
The Boy Who Rowed Out to Farragut’s Fleet: A Mobile Family’s Memoir Begins
A memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, a Mobile-born nun, opens with an Irish immigrant on the docks, a wounded Confederate prisoner, and a boy summoned home by Admiral Farragut himself.