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Abstract | Diary, 4 April-19 May 1865, of the Rev. Edward Wasmuth, an Illinois Methodist minister who worked as an agent of the U.S. Christian Commission among soldiers and black and white residents of Memphis and other locations in Tennessee. The diary was kept in a book of instructions to Commission agents. In the diary, Wasmuth described prayer meetings, hospital visits, sermons, the distribution of books and pamphlets, conversations with southerners and soldiers, and tales he heard of the Civil War and slavery. |
Creator | Wasmuth, Edward, fl. 1865. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Diary, 4 April-19 May 1865, of the Rev. Edward Wasmuth, an Illinois Methodist minister who worked as an agent of the U.S. Christian Commission among soldiers and black and white residents of Memphis and other locations in Tennessee. The diary was kept in a book of instructions to Commission agents. In the diary, Wasmuth described prayer meetings, hospital visits, sermons, the distribution of books and pamphlets, conversations with southerners and soldiers, and tales he heard of the Civil War and slavery.
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