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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A prisoner's march from Gettysburg to Staunton. (search)
oticed my dejected look, came to me, and, swinging himself from.his saddle to a fence-rail, took a Testament from his pocket, and asked me if I objected to his reading a chapter aloud. I thankfully asked him to do so; as I had not had heart enough to read my own that day. He read a chapter in one of Paul's epistles, and when he had concluded remarked that he would feel fifty per cent. better if the country were at peace and he at home that night. I must add that while he was reading I held Quaker principles myself, for I was pained to think I was an enemy of that fair-minded Christian young man who, like myself, thought he was right in engaging in a career of destruction to life and property. But we were both reminded that it was war and not peace by the call of More ammunition for the sharp-shooters, and our guards had to supply it from their boxes, it being apparently scarce. Now is the time for a charge, I thought. General Stuart had not more than three hundred men, encumbere