Description

Class Summary

Most Virginia Mennonites refused to fight in the Civil War, and many of them worked with the Dunkers (Brethren) to create an underground railroad to transport their young men to the North. Peggy Rhodes ran a busy depot on this underground railroad. She concealed five or six men at a time in a secret cellar under her bedroom floor while taking care of her five children, her dying husband, and the family’s farm.

About the Instructor

Karl Rhodes has been a writer, editor, and researcher for more than 40 years. Most recently, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond as a senior managing editor in the bank’s research department. Since retiring in 2022, he has focused on being a great-great-grandson of Margaret “Peggy” Rhodes, the protagonist of his fact-based Civil War novel – “Peggy’s War.