1861 CIVIL WAR. Important Bible from Slave Rescue & Anti-Blockade Runner Gunship, U.S.S. Pursuit Great Awakening Today he is perhaps best

Today he is perhaps best remembered as the author of the immortal hymn

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“October 15

The Duty of Searching the Scriptures

Probably less than 100 copies issued in this manner and the vast majority likely discarded or stamped all to doom by the reviewers

1861 CIVIL WAR. Important Bible from Slave Rescue & Anti-Blockade Runner Gunship, U.S.S. Pursuit Great Awakening Today he is perhaps bestIMPORTANT BIBLE PRESENTED TO THE GUNSHIP U. S. S. PURSUIT BY THE NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR. Here is an absolutely love, fresh to market piece of genuine Americana that saw rescued slaves, blockade runners captured, and was likely a central feature of life on one of the most active gunships of the Civil War! At the commencement of the War between the North and the South, the Union invested heavily in a series of gunboats