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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 3: influence of Christian officers—continued. (search)
army to certain victory, whenever God's blessing precedes the act? Jackson delighted in religious conversation and frequently engaged in it with his whole soul at times least expected by those who did not know him. During one of his battles, while he was waiting in the rear of a part of his command, which he had put in position to engage the attention of the enemy while another division had been sent to flank them, a young officer on his staff gave him a copy of the sketch of Captain Dabney Carr Harrison, a young Presbyterian minister, widely known and loved in Virginia, who had been killed at Fort Donelson. He expressed himself highly gratified at getting the sketch, and entered into an earnest conversation on the power of Christian example. He was interrupted by an officer, who reported the enemy advancing, but paused only long enough to give the laconic order, Open on them, and then resumed the conversation, which he continued for some time, only pausing now and then to recei
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 4: influence of Christian officers—concluded. (search)
ave space for only a part of the sketch of my old friend and brother, Rev. Dabney Carr Harrison, who was chaplain at the university when I was a student there, and ops, and whose abundant labors seem to increase as the years go on. Rev. Dabney Carr Harrison, Captain, company K, Fifty-sixth Virginia Infantry. To furnish a bs of The University memorial. After an exceedingly interesting sketch of Mr. Harrison's early life, education, and services as a minister (especially as chaplain viour Jesus; committing my wife and children to their Father and mine. Dabney Carr Harrison. Precious legacy of love and prayer! Precious testimony of faith and to show that neither of the brothers concerned in its preparation held Captain Harrison in higher regard than any others who knew him well, I append the followingshall be treasured among men, never will the name and the memory of the Rev. Dabney Carr Harrison be forgotten; a gentleman, a scholar, a Christian, a minister, a ma
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 13: results of the work and proofs of its genuineness (search)
y should resolve to do their whole duty to their country; then kneeling down, he called upon a minister, who was a private in the ranks, to offer prayer. When they arose, nearly every eye was suffused with tears, and God was felt to be present. During that day of battle it is said that three of this company sought and obtained the pardon of their sins. Rev. Dr. J. C. Granberry, then chaplain of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, thus speaks of Major Carter Harrison, a brother of Captain Dabney Carr Harrison (of whom an extended sketch is given in a previous chapter): I shall never cease to remember with admiration one of the earliest victims of this war, Major Carter Harrison, of the Eleventh Virginia. He was an earnest servant of Christ; modest, firm, unostentatious, zealous. He seized at once the hearts of the regiment by his many virtues, by his courtesy to all and his kind visits to the sick, to whom he bore a word not only of sympathy, but also of pious exhortation. On the l