Introduction

Biography

Dortch was teach­ing mu­sic in Mau­ry, Ten­nes­see, in 1880, and was work­ing as an ev­an­gel­ist by 1886.

Works

• Tidings of Joy (Co­lum­bia, Ten­nes­see: 1878)
• National Tid­ings of Joy (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Na­tion­al Bap­tist Con­ven­tion of Am­er­ica, 1878)
• Grace and Glo­ry, with W. G. E. Cunn­yng­ham (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Sou­thern Me­tho­dist Pub­lish­ing, 1882)
• Gospel Me­lo­dies, with Will­iam Dale & Charles Pol­lock (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Cum­ber­land Pres­by­ter­ian Pub­lish­ing, 1890)
• Spirit and Life, with Ed­mund Lo­renz (Day­ton, Ohio: Chris­tian Pub­lish­ing As­so­cia­tion, 1893)
• Choice Songs (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Na­tion­al Bap­tist Con­ven­tion of Am­er­ica, 1894)
• Gospel Voic­es (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: South-West­ern Pub­lish­ing, 1895)
• Gospel Voic­es No. 3 (Co­lum­bia, Ten­nes­see: Da­vid E. Dortch, 1902)
• Hymns of Vic­to­ry, Parts 1 and 2 (Co­lum­bia, Ten­nes­see: Dortch Pub­lish­ing, 1905)
• Happy Greet­ings to All (Char­lotte, North Ca­ro­li­na: Dortch Pub­lish­ing, 1916)