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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
Interesting religious News from the soldiers. At the meeting of the Colportage Board, at the First Baptist Church, on Thursday evening, several very interesting reports were received from Colporteurs at the various encampments in this State. As all classes of the community are more or less interested in all that pertains to the spiritual comfort and well-being of our soldiers, we will present brief extracts from several of these reports: Mr. J. C. Clopton writes from the Lynchburg encampment: "To-day I had a delightful visit to the camps took my stand at the tent of a pious soldier, and for more than an hour the soldiers flocked around me and bought Testaments and other religious books as fast as I could sell them. One young man remarked that he would have a Testament if he had to sell his coat to enable him to buy one. Another bought "Come to Jesus," and after reading it sent it home to a friend whom he had left behind. All treat me with the greatest kindness and mani