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Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
igious observances. The 103d Psalm was read and briefly commented on. Officers, not preachers, spoke gratefully of the mercy of God to them in blessing their imprisonment. Fifteen had professed faith in Christ. Twenty others gave the hand in pledge of a new life. It was a holy, blessed day to the souls of many, though the body was shut up in close imprisonment. We could all thank God for the freedom of the soul, and for soul religion. Among the converts was Lieutenant Wm. J. Read, of Tennessee, son of Dr. Read, missionary of the Baptist Central Foreign Missions to Siam. From this time the work spread till there was a great revival among the officers imprisoned there. There were many religious men among the officers. There were 13 preachers among them—6 Baptist, 6 Methodist and I Episcopalian. There were 102 Baptists, 95 Methodists, 45 Presbyterians, 37 Episcopalians, a few Catholics, Lutherans, Jews, and others who had a religion of some sort, among the prisoners, and over 1
Orange Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ar's offering for your brave defenders. occasional. Camp near Orange Court House, January 4, 1864. camp Twenty-Sixth Virginia, General Wisete to the Christian Index, Macon, Georgia: camp, near Orange Court House, Virginia, February 10, 1864. We held, on yesterday, a very plehich his battalion had been blessed: Last summer, while we were in Orange, one of your colporters (Brother Clopton) visited us. He conversed after our chaplains meeting to-morrow. J. W. J. camp near Orange Court House, Va., March 20, 1864. March 24, 1864. Rev. J. D. Chamberse. George W. Griffin. chaplains' Association, A. N. Va., Orange Court House. March 23. . . . In Davis's Brigade, of Heth's Division, son. A. B. Woodfin, Chaplain Sixty-First Georgia Regiment. Orange Court House, Tuesday, April 19. . . . In the past month God has been vuld have need for so many of these! J. W. J. Camp near Orange Court House, Virginia, April 22, 1864. From the date of the above letter
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ad been in progress twenty-one days, said: Frequent prayer-meetings have been held in the trenches; and even on the advance skirmish line, within easy musket range of the enemy, the song of praise and the voice of supplication have been heard. Sermons have also been preached in the trenches— albeit, they have sometimes been cut short by the bursting of the shell or the whistling of the minnie. Rev. Dr. Burrows baptized twenty-two soldiers at Chaffin's Bluff, a week or two since. Richmond, Virginia, Jan. 1, 1865. We are receiving some very refreshing accounts of the work of grace in the army from our missionaries: Rev. P. H. Fontaine reports the baptism of fifty soldiers. Rev. Harvey Hatcher has held several very interesting meetings, in which some seventy souls professed faith in Christ. Brother Hatcher is employed by the board to visit destitute regiments and battalions. He is eminently adapted to army work. Brother R. W. Cridlin, of the Thirty-eighth Virginia, ha
Johnstons Island (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
g a great work in the Staunton hospitals. occasional. Applewood, December 31, 1864. To-day closes the eventful year 1864! Reflections crowd the memory almost to stupefaction. Faith and patience have their amplest verge, piety and patriotism their widest scope, in our present condition. Not unlike the Israelites, we are passing through darkness drear to better and brighter prospects beyond. Among the memories of the past my mind rests upon the close of 1863. Then in prison on Johnston's Island we thought it not unfitting to spend the day in religious observances. The 103d Psalm was read and briefly commented on. Officers, not preachers, spoke gratefully of the mercy of God to them in blessing their imprisonment. Fifteen had professed faith in Christ. Twenty others gave the hand in pledge of a new life. It was a holy, blessed day to the souls of many, though the body was shut up in close imprisonment. We could all thank God for the freedom of the soul, and for soul reli
Macon (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ral Longstreet's army; T. H. Stewart to Thomas's Brigade, and P. O. Harper to Gordon's Brigade, Army of Virginia; and L. B. Payne temporarily to visit the hospitals between Atlanta and Guyton C. Railroad, until a brigade is selected for him. Another, T. F. Pierce, is now in the State military service, and will receive his appointment to a brigade when his term expires. But, to return from this digression, I give the following extracts from letters which I wrote to the Christian Index, Macon, Georgia: camp, near Orange Court House, Virginia, February 10, 1864. We held, on yesterday, a very pleasant meeting of our Chaplains' Association. A large number of chaplains were present, and the reports elicited showed a very healthful religious feeling throughout the army. A revival was reported as in progress in Davis's Mississippi Brigade, in which nine had professed conversion, and seventy were inquiring the way to life. There is also an interesting state of things in Kirkland's
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
lpless womanhood weeps bitter tears, at what may prove a final parting. Mrs. General—— veils her face that she may conceal from rude gazes the bitter anguish of a parting which may know no meeting again—while on the next seat the wife of some rough private sobs aloud as she parts from her all who may leave her and her little ones to the cold charities of the world. Yesterday was the anniversary of the secession of Virginia and the first moving of the Virginia troops to the capture of Harper's Ferry, Norfolk, etc. Three years of carnage have passed by, many hearthstones of the Old Dominion have been polluted, her fields have been laid waste, blackened ruins mark where some of her proudest mansions stood, her sons have been slain, and her people draped in mourning; but thus far she has borne herself proudly amidst the battle-storm, and she now enters upon the fourth year of the war with the same stern resolve as when her Sic semper tyrannis first rung out defiance to the foe. What sh<
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
hurch South: Revs. Leo. Rosserand J. C. Granberry in the Army of Northern Virginia; J. B. McFerrin, C. W. Miller, W. Mooney, B. P. Ransom, and W. Burr in the Army of Tennessee; J. S. Lane and E. B. Duncan in the Department of Florida; J. J. Wheat and H. J. Harris in Mississippi; W. C. Johnson to General S. D. Lee's Corps, North Mississippi; J. J. Hutchinson to army about Mobile; and beyond the Mississippi river, J. C. Keener to Louisiana troops, and B. T. Kavanaugh and E. M. Marvin to Missouri and Arkansas troops. Besides these, and others probably whose names have escaped us, the Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church South emulated other Churches in sending forth laborers into the great harvest. Rev. Dr. Myers, of the Southern Christian Advocate, in noticing these facts, says: The Mississippi Conference appointed one missionary and two chaplains to the army; Memphis, one missionary and six chaplains; Alabama, four missionaries and twelve chaplains; Florida,
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e. A bad time and place, most persons would have thought, but he was succeeding very well. Our Virginia board has recently appointed Rev. E. J. Willis General Evangelist in Ewell's Corps. It would have been hard to find a better man for the place. Brother Willis's life has been a checkered but useful one. Graduating in his literary course at a Northern college, and in law at the University of Virginia, he practised his profession for awhile in his native State, and then emigrated to California about the beginning of the gold fever. He was successful in his profession, and soon elevated to the position of judge, with a prospect of still higher honors; but seeing the great need of preachers in that rising State he left the bench for the pulpit, and was widely useful in proclaiming the glad tidings. Returning to Virginia he was pastor of Leigh Street Baptist Church, Richmond, and at the beginning of the war was building up a new interest at Clay Street Chapel. He raised a compan
Mine Run (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
South, a number of secular papers, etc. It has a claim for contributions of money and books upon the friends of the soldier in every State since State lines are not thought of in distributing its benefits. I met also Brother A. Broadus, who is widely known in Georgia as one of the most efficient agents to be found. He was busily and successfully prosecuting his work—going from house to house to plead the claims of the soldier. I met him when our army was drawn up in line of battle at Mine Run, just in rear of our lines, and in reply to our exclamation of surprise at seeing him there, he said that he was collecting money for army colportage. A bad time and place, most persons would have thought, but he was succeeding very well. Our Virginia board has recently appointed Rev. E. J. Willis General Evangelist in Ewell's Corps. It would have been hard to find a better man for the place. Brother Willis's life has been a checkered but useful one. Graduating in his literary course
Charlottesville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ry interesting meetings, in which some seventy souls professed faith in Christ. Brother Hatcher is employed by the board to visit destitute regiments and battalions. He is eminently adapted to army work. Brother R. W. Cridlin, of the Thirty-eighth Virginia, has been greatly blessed. A large proportion of his regiment have made a profession of faith in Christ since Brother Cridlin has been connected with it. Rev. A. Broaddus has recently spent two weeks in protracted meetings in Charlottesville, in which forty persons professed conversion. Rev. J. Wm. Jones has baptized within twelve months two hundred and twenty-two soldiers. Rev. T. Hume, of Petersburg, writes as follows: I have baptized here, and in adjacent parts, during the past six months, fifty-four—mostly young men of great promise. Some now are awaiting baptism, and not a few scattered about in the trenches and hospitals are earnest seekers after salvation. A. E. D. camp near Petersburg, January 2. . .
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