"Our One Common Country" author talk in Stratford, CT

[Linda Anderson]

"The Stratford Library, 2203 Main Street in Stratford, will host former Stratford resident James B. Conroy for a special “Meet-the-Author” program on Tuesday, May 6 at 7 pm. The author will discuss his recently released book, “Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865”. The program is free and open to the public.

"The recipient of strong reviews, “Our One Common Country” is a work of popular history and the first book ever published on its subject. In February 1865, Abraham Lincoln slipped quietly out of the White House and traveled south to Virginia to meet Confederate leaders on a steamboat at Hampton Roads. Their goal was a peaceful end to the Civil War. Conroy’s richly detailed and massively researched work tells their story, the first book ever written about the only presidential peace mission in America’s wartime history."

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