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The theft of a gold pocket watch that had once belonged to her grandmother led Virginia Foote into a search to recover Amorette Foote's life story. In doing so, Virginia discovered a parallel between her grandmother's life and her own. Both of them came of age in time of war. For Amorette, the Civil War; for Virginia, World War II. But Amorette was more directly affected by war than Virginia ever was, for Amorette's husband Seth died of a wound he received at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Widowed at the age of twenty-four, Amorette raised her son alone. Then, after he had established himself as a physician, she embarked on a professional career of her own. At the age of forty-nine she took a job as matron at the Chicago Training School, which prepared women to be Christian missionaries. From there she went to a similar position at Talladega College, where almost all the students were African-American. Her last two positions were in southern California. Amorette's story touches on important themes: hard economic times, the unfortunate consequences of debt, the losses brought about by war, the treatment of wounded soldiers, social reform movements headed by women, and evidence of racial and religious prejudice in institutions founded on high moral principles.
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