Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Holston Annual for 1883: Official Record of the Holston Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Sixtieth Session, Held at Chattanooga, Tenn., October, 1883 Owing to the withdrawal of some eighteen or twenty traveling preachers, and nearly half of the local preachers and white mem bers, the close of the war found the membership reduced, in 1866, to white members, colored members, and 184 local preachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.