376 John Bachman. 



For you, mourning husband, the goal is not far 

 distant, and when the moment of your departure 

 cometh, blessed thought, we shall again say : 

 "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of hi* 

 saints. " 



In God's acre adjoining St. John's Church, Charles- 

 ton, where her kindred slept, Dr. Bachman could 

 not lay his beloved wife to rest, for the sounds of 

 war, the bursting shell, forbade it. Under these cir- 

 cumstances, the vestry of Ebenezer Church, Colum- 

 bia met and tendered him for his dead a spot in 

 their Church-yard, and there they reverently laid 

 her body to await the resurrection morn. 



When Columbia was burned in 1865, Ebenezer 

 Church was destroyed by fire ; but the resting-place 

 of his dead was not disturbed. 



Now at her side sleeps his beloved grandson, the 

 late Rev. John Bachman Haskell, Pastor of Ebenezer 

 Church. 



To HIS DAUGHTERS. 



CONCORD, N. C., Jan 1st, 1864. 



My dear Children You will be glad to know 

 that I arrived here last evening safely, without de- 

 tention or accident. The rivers were very much 

 swollen. I stopped a night with Dr. Horlbeck at 

 Winnsboro. It rained in torrents all next day. 

 This morning I visited my poor sick and afflicted 

 patient. She is still very beautiful, though she is 

 fast losing ground. She clings to me I shall de- 

 vote four days to her. May God sanctify these 

 labors to the good of her immortal soul. 



