Samuel J. Baird papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 650
Subjects: Correspondence; Doctrines; Bible; American Bible Society; Religious aspects; Presbyterian Church; Confederate States of America; Medical care; Religious life; Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America. Army; History; Societies
Description: Correspondence and miscellaneous material relating to Presbyterian Church affairs and doctrinal questions, the work of the American Bible Society in Virginia (1865-1875), and the Baird family.  Includes letters concerning Baird's efforts to minister to soldiers and to assist wounded soldiers and prisoners during the Civil War.  Correspondents include James W. Alexander, E. Thompson Baird, Thomas Dickson Baird, William Logan Baird, Henry A. Boardman, John Breckinridge,  Robert J. Breckinridge, William C. Cattell, Jeremiah Chamberlain, John T. Duffield, Robert Smith Finley, P. D. Gurley, Mark Hopkins, George Howe, Edward P. Humphrey, Richard McIlwaine, John Miller, John W. Nevins, Theodore Sutton Parvin, William S. Plummer, Stacy G. Potts, Hugh Reid, Stuart Robinson, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Henry B. Smith, William B. Sprague, William J. R. Taylor, T. D. Witherspoon, and James Wood.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1910.

Presbyterian clergyman and author of Newark, Ohio.

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