1865 CIVIL WAR. Plea for More Ministers to Meet Needs of Reconstruction & Soldier Trauma. Ephemera My never failing Friend and

My never failing Friend and Helper remains to me and I find Him faithful and invariably the same

The present letters are dated to May

Alden Spooner

Occasioned by a Late Narrative in Three Letters to the Hon

1865 CIVIL WAR. Plea for More Ministers to Meet Needs of Reconstruction & Soldier Trauma. Ephemera My never failing Friend andFascinating appeal published and distributed right at the end of the Civil War. Bartlett makes a correlation between the unpreparedness of the American Army and Navy for the Civil War and the unpreparedness of the Church for the return of the wounded and suffering, for the Westward Expansion, and for the opening of the new South to more evangelical and revivalist preachers from the North. Bartlett, Samuel C. An Appeal for Ministers: A Discussion on