“And now, having disposed of and settled all my worldly business and concerns, do I with a lively faith, humbly lay hold of the meritorious death and sufferings of Christ Jesus and hope and trust thro’ His atonement to triumph in redeeming love, the ceaseless age of eternity.”


TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Punctuation has been normalized.

Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication.

Footnotes have been renumbered and relocated at the end of each chapter.

The following typographical errors have been fixed:

PageOriginalAs Corrected
9TuckoseageTuckaseage
10to to hastento hasten
11staightenedstraightened
11by the the timeby the time
15firecefierce
20MonntainMountain
21WillamsWilliams
22occassionallyoccasionally
25CarolnaCarolina
26minntesminutes
26continouslycontinuously
28pealingspeelings
28, 29,ThermopyleThermopylae
28GeatGreat
30ammuitionammunition
30emmisariesemissaries
33fiillfill
34WillamWilliam
41establishmantestablishment
43batallionbattalion
46, 47,TennesseTennessee

Variant spellings of the names Beatty and Beattie have been maintained.