CHRISTIAN MEMORIALS OF THE WAR: OR, SCENES AND INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH AND PRINCIPLE, PATRIOTISM AND WITH HISTORICAL NOTES. BY HORATIO B. HACKETT, PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND INTERPRETATION IN NEWTON THEOL. INST.; 3 BOSTON: GOULD AND LINCOLN, 59 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY. 1864. Checked May 193 AM, Antiq. Soc. Ex, 100 PREFACE. Ir is hardly possible that too many books should be written in illustration of the objects and spirit of the present war. Among them all, may there not be room. also for one like this? The object has been simply to gather up some fragments of this great history that otherwise might be lost. Most persons will agree that the incidents recorded in these pages are worth preserving; and yet from their nature, as not falling distinctly within the province of biography or history, and from their being scattered in so many different quarters, they are liable, after having been read at the moment, to pass out of sight and be forgotten. I have put these materials together in this manner because I thought it might be a grateful service to the friends of our brave soldiers, as well as an act of justice to the soldiers themselves, and because I felt a |