1864 ALFRED COOKMAN. Rare Signed CDV of Methodist Camp-Meeting Revivalist, Abolitionist, and Civil War Chaplain Prayer and Prayer Meetings and Christian Schwartz

and Christian Schwartz

424 + 327pp

During the Civil War he commissioned broadsides in support of the Union Cause to distribute and keep up morale on the home front

And he was moving away from the half-way Covenant

1864 ALFRED COOKMAN. Rare Signed CDV of Methodist Camp-Meeting Revivalist, Abolitionist, and Civil War Chaplain Prayer and Prayer Meetings and Christian SchwartzA very rare autographed carte de visite, issued without production attribution, but sometime either briefly before or during the American Civil War. Boldly autographed in the lower margin. We can trace no other examples. Reverend Alfred Cookman [1828 1871] was well known as a Methodist Holiness camp meeting preacher and a very early and influential Methodist abolitionist. In addition to his preaching, he actively helped found a school for freed blacks