OF S. S. PRENTISS. EDITED BY HIS BROTHER. VOL. I. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743 AND 745 BROADWAY. 1879. KD23429 HARVARD ENTERED According to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, In the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court, for the Southern District of New York. TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING CO., NEW YORK. 1 PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. THE Memoir of S. S. Prentiss has been long out of print. It was first published nearly a quarter of a century ago, and had at the time a wide circulation. But when, a little later, the war for the Union came, it was at once debarred from the South and its sale soon ceased at the North. The name of S. S. Prentiss, however, remained as a brilliant tradition; he became the subject of the popular lecturer, notably of the eloquent "Blind Preacher," Mr. Milburn ; and numberless articles and anecdotes respecting him continued to appear in the newspapers. More recently a new interest in him has been awakened, especially among the young men of the country. Letters have come even from such remote sections as Oregon, the Indian Territory, and Texas, full of enthusiasm about him and calling for a new edition of the Memoir. The publishers have accordingly |