Family and friends seeing off the Civil War soldier were often as concerned about his spiritual well-being as his health or physical comfort. This is a pocket-size or knapsack-size hymnal, 718 pages long, but measuring just 2 ½” x 3 ¾” x 1 ½”. Titled “Hymns / for the use of the / Methodist Episcopal Church. / Revised Edition,” this has New York and Cincinnati printers’s information on the title page, and 1849 dated copyright registration inside. The book is bound in embossed brown leather with gilt blind stamped spine reading “HYMNS.” The condition is fair, with some scuffs to the cover, small stains inside and partial separation on the inside of the front cover along the title page.

Charitable and church groups often supplied testaments and other religious texts to groups of soldiers departing for training camps or the front, but many would have been taking a valued family or even childhood volume urged upon them by concerned relatives, so this would be appropriate not just for a chaplain’s display but a private soldier’s effects also.  [sr] [ph:L]

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