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Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 57 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 56 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 27 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 25 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 23 9 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 17 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 15 1 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 12 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 11 3 Browse Search
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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 8: eagerness of the soldiers to hear the Gospel. (search)
range church music until, as we were singing the last hymn before the service, an immense rifle-shell fell in the centre of the congregation, a few feet from where the preacher was standing. It fell just between Colonel (afterwards General) James A. Walker and Captain Lewis N. Huck, of the Thirteenth Virginia, and found just space enough to wedge its way in between their legs without striking either. It was a cap shell, the reverse end struck, and it simply buried itself in the soft ground, tthat the shell would explode, but the leader of the singing lost no note, his clear, ringing voice did not tremble, the song was sung through, the preacher announced his text, and the service would have gone on despite the interruption. But Colonel Walker stepped up to the chaplain and told him if he would suspend the service he would move the brigade back under the hill where it would be more sheltered. Accordingly the announcement was made to the congregation, the benediction was pronounced
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
me if my strength would permit it. This was done, and on the day of that memorable battle I was transferred to Richmond. So obstinate was my typhoid pneumonia that I could not rejoin the army till July following, after its return from Gettysburg. The spiritual interests of the command suffered no little by the campaign, and I doubt not that the restraints of enlightened consciences saved much of that retribution upon the enemy's country which the world would have justified. Brigadier General J. A. Walker was now commanding the brigade. Its numbers and aspect had greatly changed under the rigors of that demoralizing and arduous campaign. On 22d July we set in motion for the eastern side of the Blue Ridge. While resting a day in Madison county I embraced an opportunity for calling together the Christians of my regiment, procuring a roll of some fifty of them who remained; temporarily arranged them in clubs for family prayer, nights after tattoo, and mornings after first roll-