---
title: 'The Old Bachelor'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Wirt'
date: 1814-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
- 'Apologetics'
- 'Literature'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 23'
- 'John 11'
- 'Romans 8'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wirt-1814-the-old-bachelor
---

# The Old Bachelor

Autobiographical preface to The Old Bachelor: a Virginia gentleman recalls education, war wounds, failed careers, his mother's death, and his turn to Christian study and apologetics.

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