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New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1887. 281 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and four additional portrait plates. Original brown cloth stamped in gold. [21.6 cm.] Very good. Some faint soiling to cloth and several thin, light marks to rear cover; just a hint of wear to head of spine; early name on front free endpaper; and a few traces of light marginal foxing, but interior is generally clean and binding is solid. A respectable copy. FIRST EDITION. A memoir of religious life in the South during Civil War and Reconstruction, by one of the leaders of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States. Wilmer (1815-1900) was elected Bishop of Alabama in 1861, and consecrated in Richmond the following year. He was still serving as Bishop of Alabama in the reunified church at the time of publication. A second, more common edition was issued later the same year.