Welcome

I’m Sarah Kay Bierle, an author, speaker, and researcher, exploring the American Civil War era and seeking to better understand the multi-layered stories. Military or civilian, enslaved or free, blue or gray…every story fits together to help us gain a deeper and more complete portrait of our past.

It is vital to continue conversing about this era of history, remembering to strip away myths and seeing that people really lived, suffered, loved, and lost. I believe that discussion about history can take various forms, but that listening, conversing, and pursuing an informed, gracious understanding is most important.