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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix no. 2: the work of grace in other armies of the Confederacy. (search)
en route for the main army, and those in the hospitals and camps. When our General Hospital, Transportation Office, and Military Post-office were ordered to Blue Mountain (as a temporary base of supplies), I shipped the supplies of the Association to Selma, Alabama. . . . As the army continued to march northwest, our stay at BluBlue Mountain was short; we found it necessary again to change our base of supplies. During our stay in this vicinity I preached six times to some soldiers of the Second Regiment Engineer Corps, and other troops which I found at Oxford, Alabama (six miles below Blue Mountain), and to the citizens who attended the Methodist church. TBlue Mountain), and to the citizens who attended the Methodist church. The soldiers, with but few exceptions, were serious and attentive, but very few seemed inclined to seek religion (fewer than at any meeting which I had attended for a long time, where so many soldiers were present); but it is a noticeable fact that the soldiers who remain in departments where they are less exposed to conflicts with