New director of an infant bible society
From The New-York Times August 31, 1862:
GEN. JACKSON.
“Stonewall” JACKSON replied as follows to a notification that he had been made a Life Director of the Confederate States Bible Society:
HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT,
VIRGINIA, July 21, 1862.
Rev. E.A. Bolles, General Agent Bible Society of Confederate States of America:
DEAR SIR: I gratefully acknowledge the honor conferred upon me by a portion of God’s people, in constituting me a Li[f]e Director of the Bible Society of the Confederate States of America.
It is a cause in which I feel a deep interest, and my earnest prayer is that God will make this infant Bible Society the means not only of giving His blessed Word to our own people, but of sending it freely to the remotest nations of the earth.
Inclosed is a check for $150. Please acknowledge its reception; and believe me to be, very truly, your friend and brother in Christ, T.J. JACKSON.
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Talk about reconstruction. By mid-July 1865 the American Bible Society had appointed Reverend Edwin A. Bolles as its agent in South Carolina and Georgia as it began to resume its work in the South.
