Niccolls, Samuel J. God's Hand Among the People, 1863 Chambersburg, PA Civil War Sermon

Niccolls, Samuel J. God's Hand Among the People: A Sermon delivered on Thanksgiving Day, by Rev. Samuel J. Niccolls, at the Presbyterian Church, Thursday, November 26, 1863. Chambersburg, Pa.: Printed at the Office of the Franklin Repository, 1863. First Edition. [9143] 9 x 6 inches, no wrapper, 20 clean pp., light bump top corner. Good. Pamphlet. Rev. Niccolls describes the 1862 Confederate raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and their recent defeat at Gettysburg: "The peace, harmony, and security granted to the domestic and social circle, are all the richer from the fact that we live so near the borders of a State, where crime, in its proper fruits has broken up families, alienated friends, and filled communities with strife and bitterness. Living on the very shore of a sea of strife we have as yet escaped the full power of its storms. True, we are not ignorant of them. We do well remember how the hordes of treason came among us. Their banners, marked with the sacred symbol of the cr