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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 6: in Florida, 1856-57, and the Seminoles (search)
tudies and went into the ministry. He naturally wrote me accounts of his Christian experiences and sent me wellselected books. Among them was the life of Captain Hedley Vicars of the British Army. I had a small office building near those of the arsenal, which I fitted up for use and made my sleeping room. In that little office, with my Bible and Vicars's Life in my hands, I found my way into a very vivid awakening and change, which were so remarkable that I have always set down this period as that of my conversion. It was the night of the last day of May, 1857, when I had the feeling of sudden relief from the depression that had been long upon me. Theverything appeared to me to be changed — the sky was brighter, the trees more beautiful, and the songs of the birds were never before so sweet to my ears. Captain Vicars, who had been a good man and a Christian in the Crimea, and a consistent member of the Church of England, afterwards, under the influence of a single verse of