A wonderful item preserving, facsimilied from the original handwritten manuscripts, copies of the services, prayers, and blessings of influential Civil War chaplains and Union divines, including T. C. Brownell, John H. Hopkins, Charles P. McIlvaine, Jackson Kemper, Manton Eastburn, Horatio Potter, G. T. Bedell, etc., Essentially the Bishops of each State in the Union, including Kentucky, Kansas, etc., Every one of them directly related to the Civil War, the Union Cause, Slavery, etc.,
The Services of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, as Ordered by the Bishops, During the Civil War. For the Benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission. Brooklyn, February 22d, 1864. Lithographed by Hatch & Co. New York.
6.5 x 8 heavily bevelled cloth binding with elaborate blind stamping and subtle gilt in gold. Small tear at head of spine and a bit rubbed and bumped at the corners. Text very crisp and clean, first two leaves neatly tipped in with slight pull to third leaf.
