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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)
nals, there will be hot work to-morrow. The heroism of the Fourth Alabama, illustrated in the fierce struggle on that morrow, has been heralded to the world, and is now historic. In the thick of the fight, at about 11 o'clock, Lieutenant James Camp Turner fell, pierced through the breast. Tell my sister, said he, I die happy on the battle-field, in defence of my country; and with these words on his lips—his dying message to his idolized, only sister—his pure spirit ascended to God. James Chalmers, of Halifax county, who fell on the outpost and died several days after at Fairfax Court House, is thus spoken of by an intimate friend: He possessed all the higher attributes of a Christian warrior, with hand on hilt and eye on heaven, fighting at once under the banner of his country and the Cross of his Saviour. He had been for many years a most consistent member of the Episcopal Church, and he carried his piety with him into every relation of life. At home he was a working C