1861 CIVIL WAR. Important Bible from Slave Rescue & Anti-Blockade Runner Gunship, U.S.S. Pursuit Great Awakening “October 15

“October 15

Among the pots

But my heart will sadly sigh

Missionary Trials

Life of the Rev

1861 CIVIL WAR. Important Bible from Slave Rescue & Anti-Blockade Runner Gunship, U.S.S. Pursuit Great Awakening “October 15IMPORTANT BIBLE PRESENTED TO THE GUNSHIP U. S. S. PURSUIT BY THE NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR. Here is an absolutely love, fresh to market piece of genuine Americana that saw rescued slaves, blockade runners captured, and was likely a central feature of life on one of the most active gunships of the Civil War! At the commencement of the War between the North and the South, the Union invested heavily in a series of gunboats