Memorials of Capt. Hedley Vicars, Ninety-seventh Regiment by Marsh, Catherine, 1818-1912

by Catherine Marsh



 

MEMORIALS OF

CAPTAIN H. VICARS.

 

MEMORIALS

 

OF

 

CAPT. HEDLEY VICARS,

 

 

 

NINETY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

 

 

 

BY THE

AUTHOR OF "THE VICTORY WON."

 

 

MONTREAL:

E. PICKUP, 69 FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET.

PRINTED AT OWLER & STEVENSON'S STEAM PRINTING
ESTABLISHMENT, 42 ST. FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET.

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1856.

This Record

 

OF

 

THE FAITH OF A SON

 

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

 

TO HER WHOM GOD GRACIOUSLY CHOSE

 

TO SOW IN HIS YOUNG HEART

 

ITS FIRST IMPERISHABLE SEED.

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Contents.

 

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            Preface.ix

I.

Boyhood ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

11

II.

The Awakening ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

17

III.

Conversion ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

29

IV.

Diary ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

43

V.

Home ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

55

VI.

Friendship ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

67

VII.

The War ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

80

VIII.

The Hospital ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

107

IX.

Winter before Sebastopol ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

149

X.

The Day-star rises ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

173

XI.

The Victory ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

204

Appendix.—"In Memoriam." ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

209

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