The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], New use of Bayonets.

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--"Calvin," a correspondent of the Philadelphia Presbyterian, thus speaks of things in Memphis on the last Governmental Thanksgiving Day:

The 26th of November, the day appointed by the President for general thanksgiving was duty observed in Memphis. Appropriate exercises were held in all the Churches, with the exception of Dr. Steadman's, which was closed in consequence of the illness of pastor. I say "appropriate" exercises, leaving my readers to say how well that adjective applies to those at the Episcopal Church, which was attended by a file of armed soldiers, for the purpose of compelling the officiating minister to read the prayer for the President of the United States--a prayer which he had been for three years apparently unable to find. The prayer was read in its place, but it fell upon the congregation like a bomb, and it brought many to their feet, and to the sidewalk.

The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 15, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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