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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 10: revivals in the Lower Valley and around Fredericksburg. (search)
rent Churches, a number of others had professed conversion, and the altar was still crowded with penitents. I like the way they do there in reference to young converts. Every day or so the doors of the Church are opened, and an opportunity given to all to join the Church of their choice by relating their experience and being baptized (if they desire it). But I must hasten to a close—not, however, before relating a pleasing little incident that occurred in our brigade the other day. Rev. John McGill, the efficient chaplain of the Fifty-second Virginia Regiment, had the misfortune to lose his horse a few weeks ago. The members of his regiment quietly got up a subscription, amounting to four or five hundred dollars, bought him a fine horse a few days since, and had it presented to him by Captain Bumgardiner, in the presence of the regiment. Should not such incidents as this shame the Churches at home? If soldiers can spare from their scanty allowance of $11.00 per month enough to
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
wing committee was appointed for this purpose: A. P. Hill's Division—F. M. Kennedy and George T. T. Williams. Trimble's Division—A. C. Hopkins and James Nelson. D. H. Hill's Division—A. M. Marshall and A. D. Betts. Early's Division—John McGill and J. William Jones. B. T. Lacy as chairman. Here the body spent some time in singing and prayer, in thanking God for His goodness to us, and beseeching His blessings on our future labors. The proper observance of the day of fasting,, was elected chairman. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. In addition to former chaplains present, there appeared J. M. Meredith, of the Forty-seventh Virginia Infantry, J. M. Anderson, of the Fortieth Virginia, John McGill, of the Fifty-second Virginia Infantry, John Paris, of the Fifty-fourth North Carolina Infantry, S. H. Smith, of the Sixtieth Georgia Infantry, William E. Cameron, of the Twenty-sixth Alabama, T. H. Howell, Thirteenth Alabama, and Dr. William