About this Event:

The Civil War echoes ever more ominously in the partisan politics and culture wars of our time. Mocked by monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders, American ideals are enshrined, instead, in older, truer monuments to American heroes Benjamin Dorr and his son, Captain William White Dorr. As acknowledged by The Journal of Southern History, theirs is "a story rightfully restored to history about character, integrity, faith, forgiveness, atonement, and the passions of the human heart in a world turned upside down." Theirs is also a story of firmness in doing right, as God gives us to see the right, in a time of perilous national division. Nevermore, in the 150 years since the Reverend Dorr's death, have Americans needed to hearken to his story as we do now.