The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-09
&irbnlonh Qispatfh.
MONDAY mcRNINo.....,J JUNE 9 1861.
lntcresting Facts and Incidents from
the Tract Disfr!butsr

re the Edisovs # the Dtspate'
The following extracts from the letters tf
psr.ons who are laboring for tbs srirltu'l
good OF our sol tiers viii doubtless be o. in,er.
est TO many OF your readers.
Rev ". Hut writes from Marion. Va az
have visited the hospitals at Bristol. Aetns.
don. Sait.iiis. Wythsv,it". ard Emory ana
Henry college. There are three hunc't" SIC.
At Emory and Henry, and the nnmcer viii
soon be Augmented 10 one thous md, Inede-
mand for Tsstaments il very krsa, ia' c"e-
half being desututa OF them. tSiisct large
quanti,ias of lSihIes. aud other books. mon,
ths cou ntry psop,e; am roH making up 4 u
brsry for Emory AID Henry hospital Toe
colder. after readirg Ir. Jetsr'a tract on
swearing, remarked to ftiend that be non'd
~sss- aQata .fHr oa'h The ffes ,oent OF mo
Nirs'ni. ard tennessee hsI,.osa mas knai1
very easily reach all the hosSi.sis ana camis
NlonG this road
Rev. ". l.. Fi,chsr. Petersburg, Virginia
s.For nine months l have been riding from
camp 20 camp, distributing t"ssaments and
trarts In the Eorfolt and SuG,is nrmies -
nov that they have fallen back. l have made
this place my beadq uartcrs. ard viii labor IN
the hespitaia and the cam 3 around"
Rev. II. Ross, CortGth, Mississippi: ~
Nave distributed AL tf tue three xas of
tracts and books yoc shippei. 1 secured the
40 operation ~ thres p.s;ols and two chap
lsirs. ! saw two ministers from Holly
S,Hines. where there are f1nr hospitals. They
cfcmt~N.i me 10 crSsr Testafrepia !nI tracts
from yen AMI TO .Grriy those hospitals. The
tracts are read wt.n interest, aad might give
many incidents ,tastratiys ot the good they
n,s eK cling I1u, the cian.or is for Testa-
inenss. These with psalms are especially
scush, for. Soni,. Thousands Of them, are
perishipG fof Isek y; knowledge.
Rev. mr.. Ross is the Me hCdist Presiding
E'dsr Of Mobile. bct thiukiag that nov he
miRht 90 mere good aMopE the soldiers, he
has gone 10 Corinth 10 &c. a. our agent there,
IN ioohirk out yioGs mah ard inducing them
t. become tract distributors.
Niles A., OF FincaEtis: "TE3 Vacka gees az
tracts Yen have sent Ave been received ard
distributed. Allow ne 20 thank you for tho
privilege of insisting In tAisdeiiG tn: work.
Two weeks sgo learned tnat ,he ia NiTs,-
MA regiment wunl pass within EVe E.!es Ct
this place "a r0ats fer lublin Depot. Being
anxious t. give Them trrcis, l walked out ~
the road. wne!o the soldiers were resting in
the shade. E.s,h-eu CoIruU and ELLISON ac-
CompAaied us. Tbs soid.srs came aToun| US
faster than We could capd them ont Rum
hers would say, 'Ple Is. give me- a tract
others, TO whoa had given one, would soon
return ana beg for auot6e-, so tbs. IN tie
course OF al hour had given away one ihau-
sand one hundred rGd Twelve ttact.. They
seemed particularly find Of the large ones.
~ they contained more reading mat'er.
Many were Ef.ctei by the work. n,i.led s.
mothers parting words to Ter solder boy,
having lef. b.hiGt them Iious mothsTE May
esid That they had had nothing 10 read f'r
moe tbs. Nlmhers we're destitu.3 OF Tasta-
ments-scne never having had any. "h,ls
others lad lost tfcirs ia hssty retreats y
Rev. J I'll b. Roach, Chaplain lNth TeEi-
ment Aiabama vo!un teers, writes ''I III may
be assured that our soldiers read with deep
interest your traces. I Rave seen EuCa of
their good ell cts among my regiment. Just
before eute:itg the batlls ut Williamsburg a
Lieutepant asked for 4 cory Of each of my
tracn; he folded them up, about G d. n, and
placed them In his side pocket. During the
fight ball pierced the traces and lodged
against the tract nearest his body. He at
tributes the s2vinS OF his Lf4 to the obstruc-
1ion afforded by the tracts, and IS now ar
Jarsnuy much Interested in religious MAJ
1eYs.'' A. T. DICKINSON.