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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 10 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 8 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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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 23: summer of 1864. (search)
riend I have in the army; pray for him that he may meet me in heaven. When asked what word he desired to leave with his company, he said, Tell them to be better boys. Some of them are reckless and wicked. Tell them to repent, serve God, be good soldiers, and meet me in heaven. When asked how he felt in view of death, he said, I have no fears; all is clear. Jesus died for me; I know he will save me. Blessed be the Lord. His Colonel passing by, came to his side and said, Is this you, Dawson? I am sorry to find you so dreadfully wounded? Yes, Colonel, I am dying, but I am going home to heaven. I have tried to do my duty. It is God's will, and I cheerfully give myself up a sacrifice on the altar of my country. He then committed himself to God and lingered for some hours, continually praying and praising God, when he died the glorious death of a brave Christian soldier. Writing further of the glorious work the same faithful laborer says: Many are joining the C