“Don’t forget to use your Bible,” Theophilus Wylie told his son, Richard Dennis Wylie, in a letter dated August 3, 1861, as his regiment prepared to go off and fight in the Civil War. In October, Richard Wylie fell ill and died. This was his bible.
Note: It’s interesting that the book ended up in the hands of a “Captain Charles Lo.” We can only assume that this Captain was the one who was responsible for returning the bible to the Wylies, which is how it somehow comes back to us and we find it in the library.
