A VERY rare book printed for the congregation of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta. The story was written by Reverend Quintard the Chaplain of the Confederate Army and is told by Nellie Peter's Black. She dropped her handkerchief  in St. Luke's during her brothers funeral in 1864 while the church was being bombed by the Union Army. The city was of course burned and the handkerchief was found and returned to her. This is the 10 page story it had to tell. The story had been printed earlier in a magazine and I guess the congregation decided to print in a book.

Nellie was shocked by what happened in Atlanta as a youth and was sent to school in PA and returned to help rebuild the city and work on poverty through the church which was rebuilt, She became a proponent of education and a national speaker. Her husband, George Black, was a US Congressman from Atlanta and Nellie personally signed this book on a dust page "Happy Easter to you all Nellie Peters Black 1907" There is also a bookplate pictured of the Reverend and it may be a printed signature as he died 8 years prior to the book being printed. This book is extremely rare and I can not find one mentioned anywhere on the internet although it exists in the public domain. This is also signed by Nellie Peters Black

Some water staining on the dust pages and staining on the page from a newspaper article on Nellie that is folded in the back of the book. Sewanee TN University Press 1907 10 pages.