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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 7: work of the chaplains and missionaries. (search)
astor of one of the Presbyterian Churches in Louisville, and one of the noblest Christian gentlemen I ever knew) and Rev. W. S. Lacy (of the Twenty-seventh North Carolina, one of the truest and most efficient of the many noble workers whom our Presbtures. Of course, my good Brother Witherspoon replied: Why, I do not admit that those are Baptist Scriptures. Rev. W. S. Lacy, in a series of admirable papers on the Religious Interest in Lee's Army, written in the New York Watchman soon afte all of the regiments; and in the meantime, that we will each preach as often as we can to those that are destitute. Rev. Dr. Lacy has been requested by the general to labor as a missionary in the regiments of his corps that are without chaplains,es. Brethren desirous of obtaining chaplaincies for themselves or friends would do well, therefore, to write at once to Dr. Lacy, at General Jackson's Headquarters, or to some one of the chaplains of our corps. And are there not brethren now in the
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 8: eagerness of the soldiers to hear the Gospel. (search)
no brilliant gas-jets illuminated the house—no lofty spire pointed heavenward—no clear-sounding bell summoned to cushioned seats elegantly attired ladies or fashionably dressed men—and no pealing notes of the grand organ led the music. But rude as they were, the completion of these chapels was hailed with the liveliest manifestations of joy on the part of those who had helped to build them, and each one of them proved, indeed, none other than the house of God and the gate of heaven. Rev. W. S. Lacy, of the Forty-Seventh North Carolina, thus writes of an evening service in his chapel: It was a solemn sight to see one of those earnest, crowded congregations by our feeble light in that rude chapel. We had no brilliant gas-jets, softened by shaded or stained glass. The light was reflected from no polished surface or snowy wall; one or two roughlook-ing specimens of candles (we thought them magnificent) adorned the pulpit, and, perhaps, three others were in the room, subject to<
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Roster of chaplains, army of Northern Virginia. (search)
ttalion. T. Walker Gilmer. Braxton's Battalion. Rev. Dr. A. B. Brown; James Nelson. Page's Battalion. Hardaway's Battalion. T. M. Niven; Henry M. White. Third Corps (General A. P. Hill). Missionary Chaplains: Rev. Dr. Geo. D. Armstrong; Rev. J. Wm. Jones. Fifth Alabama Battalion (Provost Guard). Heth's Division. McRae's Brigade. Eleventh North Carolina. Twenty-sixth North Carolina. A. N. Wells. Forty-fourth North Carolina. R. S. Webb. Forty-seventh North Carolina. W. S. Lacy. Heth's Division—Continued. Fifty-second North Carolina. Rev. Mr. Sanford; J. M. Cline. Cook's Brigade. Fifteenth North Carolina. S. W. Howerton. Twenty-seventh North Carolina. Forty-sixth North Carolina. A. D. Cohen. Forty-eighth North Carolina. C. Plyler. Davis's Brigade. Second Mississippi. Eleventh Mississippi. Forty-second Mississippi. T. D. Witherspoon. Fifty-fifth North Carolina. Twenty-sixth Mississippi. M. B. Chapman. First Battalion. Archer's (Old) Brigad