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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 4: enters West Point. (search)
, strengthened by after associations in the army, and which remains to me yet, a memory of one of the greatest and best characters I have ever known. His particular friend was Leonidas Polk, and when Johnston was adjutant of the corps Polk was the sergeant-major. They were my seniors in the Academy; but we belonged to the same set, a name well understood by those who have been ground in the Academy mill. Polk joined the Church from convictions produced, as I understood, from reading Gregory's letters--a noted religious work of that day — aided by the preaching of our eloquent and pious chaplain, who had subsequently a wide reputation as Bishop McIlvaine. A word as to chaplain McIlvaine. In appearance and manner he seemed to belong to the pulpit, and he had a peculiar. power of voice rarely found elsewhere than on the stage. From its highest tones it would sink to a whisper, and yet be audible throughout the whole chapel. His sermons, according to the usage of his Chur