1864 CIVIL WAR PRISON BIBLE. New Testament Belonging to Confederate Soldier at Fort Delaware Prison Martyrs

1864 CIVIL WAR PRISON BIBLE. New Testament Belonging to Confederate Soldier at Fort Delaware Prison MartyrsAn evocative artifact from the Civil War bearing two physical connections to Fort Delaware Prison. The item itself is an 1863 Pearl Edition [i. e. pocket] issued by the American Bible Society. These were designed specifically to fit into a soldier's pocket and were distributed gratis to mustered Union soldiers and also to Confederate soldiers imprisoned in the North. On the pastedown is a fait pencil inscription, "Rev. Dr. Handy text on Sunday May

but at Cambridge

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Darby is of course considered to be the father of Dispensationalism and Pre-tribulational Rapture theology

No copies on the market and I don't recall ever having handled this book before or remember even seeing it

probably 19th century

Bound in a handsome little original vellum 12mo volume we have three choice works

awake the sacred lyre

The Life and Death of the Author

According to Ussher

NJ [extensive]

and opposed the institution of slavery [and favors colonization]

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