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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
ins, who numbered at least one hundred thousand. As a class, they were faithful servants of their Divine Master, and full of love toward their fellowmen, their country, and their God. Their work as spiritual guides, was :amazingly potential, for they administered medicine to a mind diseased, by which the physician's prescriptions were often made doubly curative. They formed a trusted link between the sick soldier and his home — a ladder for the angels of thought and affection, between his Bethel and heaven on earth — and to many a bereaved heart did their written words, telling of the joy and hope of a loved one at the gate that leads to immortality, convey messages that sweetened tears. Without hope of reward in the plaudits of the people for deeds of valor in battle, and with their names only faintly written in the records of Patriotism, they nevertheless braved danger and death in every form, for the sake of the, souls and bodies of those in their spiritual keeping. The value o