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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)
laration, that in the long and mournful catalogue of the victims of the late war, Virginia finds the name of no truer, braver, or better son than John Thompson Brown. A few days later, at Spottsylvania Court House, fell the accomplished Major David Watson, of the same artillery regiment with Colonel Brown, and of whom it was said: Major Watson was borne from the field and carried to a neighboring house, where he received all the aid that kindness and sympathy could give. Happily, he retaMajor Watson was borne from the field and carried to a neighboring house, where he received all the aid that kindness and sympathy could give. Happily, he retained his faculties long, enough to recognize the presence of that heart-broken mother; she who had leaned forward with throbbing heart to catch the first tidings from every battle-field on which her darling was endangered, and on whose prophetic face for three long, anxious years had been prefigured this coming agony. She came in time to receive the last pressure of that dear hand, and to hear from his own lips this solemn declaration, I have never believed in a deathbed repentance; so for thre
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
exception, kept the faith firm unto the end. And of this exception I must say that, although he fell once by intemperance, yet he deeply repented, confessed his sins, and finally died from wounds, rejoicing in hope. There was no revival in our battalion, in the commonly received sense of the term, during my connection with it, nor do I recollect any incidents of remarkable conversion. Some were converted who did not connect themselves with any Church, not even the Camp; e.g., Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson, for a long time Captain Second Howitzers (Richmond), and lieutenant-colonel of our battalion when killed at Spottsylvania. His life had been irreproachable for a long time, but we did not know, not even his most intimate friends, that he had any hope until on his deathbed he said to his mother, I have long since taken Christ as my salvation. E—— M——did not connect himself with any Church until his return home. Not a few, I think, held back fearing that their change of views
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Roster of chaplains, army of Northern Virginia. (search)
First Tennessee. W. T. Helm. Seventh Tennessee. Rev. Mr. Harris. Fourteenth Tennessee. J. E. King. Forty-fourth Tennessee. Twenty-third Tennessee. Sixty-third Tennessee. Fortieth Virginia. Geo. F. Bagby; J. M. Anderson. Forty-seventh Virginia. S. P. Meredith; S. B. Barber. Fifty-fifth Virginia. R. B. Beadles. Twenty-second Virginia Battalion. Thirteenth Alabama. T. H. Howell. Wilcox's Division. Scales's Brigade. Thirteenth North Carolina. Sixteenth North Carolina. Rev. Mr. Watson. Twenty-second North Carolina. F. H. Wood. Thirty-fourth North Carolina. A. R. Benick. Thirty-eighth North Carolina. Rev. Mr. McDiarmid. McGowan's Brigade. First South Carolina. Twelfth South Carolina. Rev. Mr. Dixon; J. M. Anderson. Thirteenth South Carolina. Wallace Duncan; J. N. Bouchelle. Fourteenth South Carolina. W. B. Carson. Orr's Rifles. F. P. Mulally. Thomas's Brigade. Sixteenth Georgia. Thirty-fifth Georgia. John H. Taylor. Forty-fifth Georgia. E. B. Barre