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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison life at Fort McHenry . (search)
Prison life at Fort McHenry. By Rev. Dr. T. D. Witherspoon, late Chaplain of the Forty-Second Mississippi Regiment.
Paper no. 1.
On the evening of the 4th of July, 1863, when it became apparent that the army of General Lee was in quiet and undisturbed retreat from its position before Gettysburg, I found myself in the midst of three or four hundred men of the brigade in which I served, who were too severely wounded to be transported to the rear.
Two alternatives presented themselves, to leave these men in the hour of their distress, or to remain within the enemy's line.
The decision was soon made; and the consent of superior officers having been obtained, I stood by the roadway waving adieu as the little remnant of the gallant brigade tramped silently and sorrowfully by; and then turned to the tenderest and saddest ministry of my life, as under open flies, on the bare ground, or a mere pile of straw, these gallant men lay heroically suffering or unconsciously moaning their li
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison life at Fort McHenry . (search)
Prison life at Fort McHenry. By Rev. Dr. T. D. Witherspoon, late Chaplain of the Forty-Second Mississippi Regiment.
Paper no. 2.
It was my lot to be entertained successively in two of the leading hotels of this prison, and of these I will briefly speak.
The first was the loft of the stable in which the horses of the officers of the fort were stalled.
The floor, which separated us from our neighing neighbors beneath us, was full of broad seams from the shrinkage of the rough boards of which it was composed, so that the hot, steamy air from below had full access to us, and during the oppressive days and sultry nights of July and August, with the thin roof of shingles between us and the sun, and the hot steam arising from the stalls beneath, our situation was anything but comfortable.
Nor must you judge us too harshly if I assure you that there was a general feeling of relief when we found one morning, to our surprise, that a process of summary ejectment had been served upon o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison life at Fort McHenry . (search)
Prison life at Fort McHenry. By Rev. Dr. T. D. Witherspoon, late Chaplain of the Forty-Second Mississippi Regiment.
Paper no. 3--conclusion.
To one other of our prison diversions I must briefly introduce you. I refer to the regimental courts-martial held as occasion required.
One of these will give an idea of the whole.
Among the petty annoyances to which we were subjected — for which, however, we could not blame our captors — was the custom on the part of some of the younger and less scrupulous portion of our number to circulate unfounded rumors of our prospective release, or grape-vine telegrams, as they were called.
The graver and more credulous part of the body would accept them all as true, would each roll up carefully his blanket, fasten his tin cup and wooden fork to his haversack and swing them about his neck, and take his seat near the door, meekly and patiently but in vain waiting for the order to fall in for exchange.
This practice became so great a nuisance tha
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 7
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 12 1864 65
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Roster of chaplains, army of Northern Virginia . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Terry John M. Jones
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee Faithlessness. (search)
Yankee Faithlessness.
--The Central Presbyterian says that several of our chaplains who remained at Gettysburg to comfort our wounded and bury our dead are now retained at Fort Norfolk as prisoners.
Among them are Paul C. Morton and Harvey Gilmore, chaplains in Ewell's corps.
Rev. T. D. Witherspoon, chaplain of the 42d Mississippi, was returning to Virginia more than three weeks since with the body of his Colonel, R. H. Miller, and after passing Baltimore safely, and with a paper from the commanding officer at Fort McHenry giving him leave to come on, he was yet detained at Fortress Monroe just as the flag of truce boat was leaving, and sent to Fort Norfolk as a prisoner.