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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 5 5 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 3 1 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 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 17: spring of 1863. (search)
nable their chaplain to supply them with Testaments, tracts, and religious papers. Rev. T. C. Wier, referring to the religious habits of the soldiers, says: They listen with a quiet, deferential respect to the Word, rarely witnessed in our congregations at home. In addition to preaching and prayer-meeting on the Sabbath or during the week, we have public prayers at the Sunday evening dress parade. This custom was introduced into our regiment at the suggestion of our first Colonel, Hon. Robert McLain, a New School Presbyterian preacher. There is something impressive in this Sabbath evening prayer. It is a calm evening, and the men are drawn up in the order for dress parade. At the commad, parade rest, leaning gracefully upon their arms, they come to the position of rest. Our good Colonel then gives the command, Attention to prayer by the chaplain-heads uncovered, when the chaplain, facing the regiment a few feet in front of the Colonel, offers a short, appropriate prayer. Su