![]() ![]() Then Captain Cahill, brutal leader of the local Home Guard, commandeers the Lynch home for a dwelling and headquarters, abetted by Sarah’s domineering sister-in-law. ![]() Marlie shelters the man she now knows as Ewan McCall in her distillery. A bedraggled man with an injured ankle comes to the Lynch home one night, but this time it’s an escaped Union prisoner-Socrates. Their mutual distaste for slavery leads them to shelter escaped slaves and point them northward to freedom. They are half-sisters, daughters of the slave-holder who owned Marlie’s mother, but they share more than blood. Marlie lives with and distills her medicines in the home of Sarah Lynch. When a scruffy man asks to borrow a Greek philosophy book from her handcart, she dubs him “Socrates,” and their friendship grows. Marlie Lynch of central North Carolina, the free-born daughter of a former slave, collects information about Rebel activities and takes herbal medicines to a prison for captured Union soldiers. Not everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line supports the Southern cause during the Civil War. ![]()
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