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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 2: influence of Christian officers. (search)
d the following: General order no. 15. Headquarters, army of Northern Virginia, February 7, 186ictory at Cold Harbor and Gaines's Mill. Headquarters, June 27, 1862. His Excellency, President Dthe same spirit: General order no. 132. Headquarters, A. N. Va., December 31, 1862. The gen, was as follows: General order no. 83. Headquarters, A. N. Va., August 13, 1863. The Presid for his soldiers: General order no. 7. Headquarters, A. N. Va., January 22, 1864. The comma for April, 1864: General order no. 23. Headquarters, A. N. Va., March 30, 1864. In complianeath of Jackson: General order, no. 61. Headquarters, A. N. Va., May 11, 1863. With deep gre broad charity of this model Christian: Headquarters, Valley Mountain, August 29, 1861. rabbi M.vant, R. E. Lee, General Commanding. Headquarters, A. N. Va., April 2, 1863. M. J. Michelbac Your obedient servant, R. E. Lee. Headquarters, A. N. Va., September 20, 1864. Rev. M. J. [1 more...]
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 3: influence of Christian officers—continued. (search)
ook on it as a calamity at all? If it were in my power to replace my arm, I would not dare do it unless I could know that it was the will of my Heavenly Father. His dispatches and official reports all breathed this spirit of trust in and dependence upon God. His simple God blessed our arms with victory at McDowell yesterday, was but a type of the character and spirit of his dispatches. After his capture of Winchester in 1862 he issued the following order: General order no. 53. Headquarters, Valley District. Winchester, May 26, 1862. Within four weeks this army has made long and rapid marches, fought six combats and two battles, signally defeating the enemy in each one, captured several stands of colors and pieces of artillery, with numerous prisoners and vast medical, ordnance and army stores, and finally driven the boastful host, which was ravaging our beautiful country, into utter rout. The general commanding would warmly express to the officers and men under his co
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 4: influence of Christian officers—concluded. (search)
nsable in order to make it fit to accomplish the mighty results dependent on its efforts. The following incident well illustrates the influence of Christian officers: When General Havelock, as colonel of his regiment, was travelling through India, he always took with him a Bethel tent, in which he preached the Gospel; and when Sunday came in India he hoisted the Bethel flag, and invited all men to come and hear the Gospel; in fact, he even baptized some. He was reported for this at Headquarters, for acting in a non-military and disorderly manner; and the commander-in-chief, General Lord Gough, entertained the charge, but, with the true spirit of a generous military man, he caused the state of Colonel Havelock's regiment to be examined. He caused the reports of the moral state of the various regiments to be read for some time back, and he found that Colonel Havelock's stood at the head of the list; there was less drunkenness, less flogging, less imprisonment in it, than in any o
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 8: eagerness of the soldiers to hear the Gospel. (search)
ouisa Court House, and again at Ashland, I well remember, to deeply interested congregations, and as I mingled among our wounded at Cold Harbor (where on the 27th of June, 1862, my regiment, the Thirteenth Virginia, carried into action 306 men and lost 175, killed and wounded), I found a number who referred to those meetings and expressed themselves as deeply affected by them. Rev. Dr. R. L. Dabney was a gallant and efficient officer on Jackson's staff, and often preached to the men at Headquarters, and in their camps and bivouacs as opportunity offered. On this march he preached a very able sermon on Special Providence, in the course of which he used this emphatic language: Men, you need not be trying to dodge shot or shell or minnie. Every one of these strikes just where the Lord permits it to strike, and nowhere else, and you are perfectly safe where the missiles of death fly thickest until Jehovah permits you to be stricken. Major Nelson, of General Ewell's staff, one of th
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 10: revivals in the Lower Valley and around Fredericksburg. (search)
etc., and distributing thousands of pages of tracts, and many Bibles and Testaments, and performing much other labor which may not be written here, but whose record is on high. Carefully compiled statistics show that, in the fall and winter of 1862-63, and spring of 1863, there were, at the very lowest estimate, at least 1,500 professions of conversion in Lee's army. I must omit a vast amount of material which I had collected concerning this period, and insert only the following: Headquarters, Forty-Fourth Virginia Regiment, April 15. Revivals of religion are contagious. There are times in the history of the Church when God seems to be more willing to give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him than at others; therefore sinners are commanded to repent, that their sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. The same gracious Heavenly Father that has owned and revived His work at Fredericksburg, and in other portions of the
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 12: progress of the work in 1864-65. (search)
ccess, but merely as illustrating how God helped us in our labors, and blessed our poor efforts during this period, I give the following report of one of the missionaries for the year beginning October I, 1863, and ending September 30, 1864. It may be proper to say that on October I, 1864, I accepted an appointment from the Virginia Baptist Sunday-school and Publication Board as missionary-chaplain to A. P. Hill's Corps, and that this report only embraces my labors for the year named: Headquarters, Third Corps, A. N. Va., near Petersburg, October 1, 1864. Rev. A. E. Dickinson, General Superintendent: Dear Brother: I have given you from time to time informal reports of my work, but now that a year has elapsed since I entered the service of your board, it is perhaps expected that I should send you a more formal report of my labors. I have confined myself chiefly to those regiments and brigades most destitute of ministerial labor; but would take occasion to say that I have been