1861 CIVIL WAR. Early Soldier-Used Hymnal. The First Hymnal Published for Union Troops. Rare! ZZAutographsandArtifacts some of which are still

some of which are still published today and is probably best remembered as the author of Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War (1780) and the poem Sympathy (1788)

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No copies in the United States

1861 CIVIL WAR. Early Soldier-Used Hymnal. The First Hymnal Published for Union Troops. Rare! ZZAutographsandArtifacts some of which are stillA field used, battle worn copy of the first hymnal issued for Union troops during the American Civil War. The present is a very slight variant of the example in the Harvard Divinity School Library's Religious Aspects of the American Civil War collection. The pocket hymnal, the first chronologically in their archives, is perhaps the first issued for soldier's use. In The Work of the Army Committee of the New York Young Men's Christian Association,