Billingsley Furniture

Billingsley, Amos Stevens. From the Flag to the Cross; or Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War. Philadelphia: New World Publishing Company, 1872. Original embossed brown leather boards with gilt pictorial details and titled to covers and spine. Presented with a new archival brown cloth slipcase. Presented is the 1872 printing of From the Flag to the Cross: or, Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War by A. S. Billingsley. The book is an exploration of the role Christianity played in the lives of Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War. Published not ten years after the conflict ended, the book offers a unique perspective of the conflict that is both theological and intimately personal, as Billingsley served as Chaplain to the 101st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The subtitle to this book is "The conversions, prayers, dying requests, last words, sufferings and deaths of our soldiers, on the battlefield, in hospital, camp and prison and a description of distinguished Christian men and their labors." The title of the book, From the Flag to the Cross, was taken from a letter written from a dying soldier to his brother in which he commends his allegiance to the Flag but urges him to the highest allegiance to the Cross of Jesus...