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William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 8: spring of 1862. (search)
new man, and have set out for heaven. Another wrote from Yorktown: For three months I have not preached a sermon. We have no preaching place, and I do not know when we shall have one. The most that can be done is by colportage work, from camp to camp, distributing the pages of divine truth. The soldiers are anxious for Testaments and tracts, and read them most eagerly. The scenes in the hospitals were very touching. As I would go from cot to cot, says a colporteur writing from Winchester, Va., leaving a tract or a Testament, and speaking of Jesus, it was not uncommon for some sufferer in another part of the room to call out, Bring me one. I shall never forget my first visit to one of the hospitals. There, stretched out before me, on coarse, hard beds, lay perhaps a hundred sick soldiers, most of them young men, some of them the flower of the land. They were far from happy homes, lonely, despairing, sick — some of them sick unto death. How cheering the sight of any friend