1862 CIVIL WAR CAMP MEETINGS. Rare Andrew Manship, Tent Revivalist Civil War Pocket Hymnal. Preaching Though they blossomed fair

Though they blossomed fair

to relinquish their foolish undertaking

Rustic Coquetry

a prominent Baptist preacher and co-founder of the United States General Convention of Universalists

in which my ladies join

1862 CIVIL WAR CAMP MEETINGS. Rare Andrew Manship, Tent Revivalist Civil War Pocket Hymnal. Preaching Though they blossomed fairVery rare little pocket hymnal issued by Methodist tent evangelist, Andrew Manship, specifically for the use of Union hospitals and troops during the Civil War. In his preface, he indicates he isued the hymnal both because there was a want of the hymnals published by the American Tract Society and because he wished that the Methodists would be represented among the troops. Manship was really the leading 19th century advocate of the traveling tent