1862 October 19 Lynchburg, Va.

[from the diary of William M. Blackford, bank officer and former diplomat with five sons in the Confederate Army]

Sunday 19  Fine weather--Large congre-
gation.  Bishop Atkinson preached
able sermon--and nothing high
church in it--at night the he preached
again.  I liked him better than
in the morning.  He now reads
his sermons and his delivery  not near
as good--Called on him at Mrs Gar
lands--whom he came to see--There
is great deal of the churchman
about him.  He is fond of power
and disposed to stretch his authority
to the utmost.  I distrust him a
good deal--He spoke of the low
church Bishops of the north as
the Puritanical bishops and as all
bitter against the South --[which?]
is too true

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