Episode 60
Annie Chambers Ketchum was an upstanding protestant woman and a scholar and writer before the Civil War. During the War she composed new words for the Confederate National Anthem. But after the War everything changed. She converted to Catholicism, moved to New York City, and became a Dominican tertiary.
More Information
- Times Dispatch 31 January 1904 — Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive
- The other Annie Chambers – Newspapers.com
- The B.O. Gaines History of Scott County – B. O. Gaines – Google Books
- The American Catholic Who’s who – Google Books
- Sea-Weeds. Annie Chambers-Ketchum (1824-1904). Southern States: Mexico, the Gulf. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. America: Vols. XXV-XXIX
- Notre Dame Archives: Calendar
- Harper’s – Google Books
- Annie Chambers Ketchum – Wikipedia
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