1861 CIVIL WAR. Early Soldier-Used Hymnal. The First Hymnal Published for Union Troops. Rare! ZZAutographsandArtifacts No copies in the United

No copies in the United States

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Wickliff's Reflection on Popery [a clear warning against affiliation with the "state" church]

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1861 CIVIL WAR. Early Soldier-Used Hymnal. The First Hymnal Published for Union Troops. Rare! ZZAutographsandArtifacts No copies in the UnitedA 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,