1862 JOEL PARKER. The Trent Affair & the Capture of Mason and Slidell. Confederate Spies - Civil War Abolition *The Revival of Religion at

*The Revival of Religion at Pittfield

but a colonel in the military and a flaming evangelist among the young soldiers

Joseph Belcher (1794-1859)

Thomas Cursham's copy

Notwithstanding our repeated and unheeded endeavours to reclaim her - living in ye detestible sin of intemperance often appearing to be disguised with Liquor to such a sordid degree as that those who behold her cannot but judge her to be guilty of drunkenness

1862 JOEL PARKER. The Trent Affair & the Capture of Mason and Slidell. Confederate Spies - Civil War Abolition *The Revival of Religion atA wonderfully rare first edition work on the Trent Affair, which nearly drew the United States into a war with Great Britain just as the Civil War in America was beginning, i. e., December of 1861. What led to the crisis? Two Confederate spies, John Mason of Virginia and John Slidell of Louisiana, were arrested aboard a British mail ship, the Trent, attempting to flee the United States in order to lobby England for their official recognition of the