MARTYRDOM IN MISSOURI A HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS PROSCRIPTION, THE SEIZURE OF CHURCHES, AND THE PERSECUTION OF MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL, IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR, AND UNDER THE “TEST OATH” OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION.

BY

REV. W. M. LEFTWICH, D. D.

VOLUME I.

SAINT LOUIS:

S. W. BOOK & PUB. CO., 510 & 512 WASHINGTON AVE.

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.

1870.

Dedication.

TO THE

MARTYRS OF MISSOURI,

AND THE

CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY SUFFERED,

THIS BOOK

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

W. M. LEFTWICH,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri.

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