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THE YOUNG SERGEANT, THE TRIUMPHANT SOLDIER: A True Story from the Civil War for the Young
Mary A. Denison
"The world is a battle-field and the Christian is the true soldier. There are enemies to fight in the counting room, or the retreat from business, or even in the home-circle, for him who has put on the armor of God. Some of these are represented in this little volume. 'The Young Sergeant,' with whose glorious death this story ends, was a veritable personage. He received his wound at the Battle of Big Bethel, and we could name the clergyman whose sad duty it became to soothe his last moments - sad, yet joyful, for the Young Sergeant, 'Beheld his victory won, And stood complete at last.'"
A powerful story for young and old alike, written by Mary Andrews Denison (1826-1911), a gifted and godly author who penned over 60 volumes. The story is divided into four parts, with each section highlighting the words of the great hymn, "Soldier's of Christ Arise."
PART FIRST - The Hero Soldier
PART SECOND - The Silent Soldier
PART THIRD - The Youthful Soldier
PART FOURTH - The Triumphant Soldier
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Mary Andrews, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Andrews and his wife Juliette Robbins, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 26, 1826. She was educated in the Boston public schools, and in 1846 was married to the Rev. Charles Wheeler Denison, at that time editor of the Emancipator, the first antislavery journal in New York. He was also an assistant editor of the Olive Branch, to which Mrs. Denison contributed stories and sketches. In 1853 she went to British Guiana with her husband, who had been appointed consul general, and while there she continued to write for various magazines. On her return to the United States she became editor of the Lady's Enterprise, and in 1856 she and her husband removed to Buffalo, where the latter had become pastor of the Niagara Street Baptist Church. She wrote novels for Ballou and Burdick in the 1850's, and had many dialogues and short stories in Gleason's Literary Companion in 1860. During the last two years of the Civil War, her husband was post chaplain in Winchester, Virginia, and hospital chaplain in Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Denison helped nurse the sick. She afterwards accompanied him to England where he was an American propagandist. In 1867 her husband edited an American newspaper in London, but shortly thereafter they returned to Washington, D. C., where they remained many years. Mr. Denison died November 14, 1881. The last few years of Mrs. Denison's life were spent principally at her home in Normandie Heights, Baltimore. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the home of her brother, Dr. R. R. Andrews, where she had been for fourteen months, on October 15, 1911.
Mrs. Denison wrote some sixty novels, many of them under the pen name "Clara Vance,"(1) and wrote short stories under her own name for Godey's Lady's Book, Golden Days, Frank Leslie's Monthly, and other publications. Besides "Clara Vance," Davidson(2) assigns to her the anagram "N. I. Edson," as well as the letters "M.A.D." and "A.M.D." Her most popular book probably was "That Husband of Mine." For Beadle she wrote eight or nine novels, the first one in 1860. She also wrote some plays. The comedy-drama "Florel," in which Viola Allen acted and which afterwards was played as "Talked About," is said to have been an adaptation of Mrs. Denison's "Mrs. Peter Crewitt."
