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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 12: progress of the work in 1864-65. (search)
pecially of more Baptist chaplains, as we have nothing like our proportion. The only thing that would palliate the conscription of ministers would be that it would fill up all the vacant chaplaincies. I learn, from a private source, that Rev. L. W. Allen, of Virginia (widely known and loved), who was captured while serving as captain of a cavalry company, is engaged at Fort Johnson in carrying on a very interesting revival, in which a number of our officers have professed conversion and beento my men, in the presence of the enemy, is, There are the Yankees, boys–our cause is just-trust in God, and charge them. This has been my motto, and I expect it to be so long as I find the Yankees the avowed enemies of my country's freedom. L. W. Allen. A correspondent of the Biblical Recorder mentions a Confederate captain, who in his company, composed of volunteers and conscripts from different section of the country, has had no man charged with stealing and no deserter since the war