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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 2: influence of Christian officers. (search)
nity unite in sorrow at his untimely death. May God in His mercy support you under this grievous trial, and give you that peace which, as it passeth all understanding, so nothing in this world can diminish or destroy it. On the death of Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, he wrote the following letter to his wife: Lexington, Virginia, February 21, 1867. My Dear Mrs. Elliott: It would be in vain for me to attempt to express my grief at your great affliction. In common with the whole countrMrs. Elliott: It would be in vain for me to attempt to express my grief at your great affliction. In common with the whole country, I mourn the death of him whom for more than a quarter of a century I have admired, loved and venerated, and whose loss to the church and society, where his good offices were so important, I can never expect to see supplied. You have my deepest sympathy, and my earnest prayers are offered to Almighty God that He may be graciously pleased to comfort you in your great sorrow, and to bring you in His own good time to rejoice with Him whom in His all-wise Providence He has called before you to
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 5: Bible and colportage work. (search)
Testaments, and most excellent tracts in vast numbers, were freely sent forth to all the camps and hospitals from their centre of operations. The Virginia Episcopal Mission Committee heartily united in the work, and spent thousands of dollars per annum in sending missionaries to the army, and in printing and circulating tracts. Rev. Messrs. Gatewood and Kepler, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, were the zealous directors of operations in Virginia, while in other States such men as Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, Doctor, now Bishop, Quintard, of Tennessee, and the lamented General Polk gave the weight of their influence and the power of their eloquence, written and oral, to promote the cause of religion among our soldiers. At Raleigh, North Carolina, early in the war, Rev. W. J. W. Crowder commenced the publication of tracts, encouraged and assisted by contributions from all classes of persons. In less than a year he reported: We have published, of thirty different tracts, over 5
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
nnection of those words with events immediately following and in the light of events now transpiring around us. I communicated the conversation, after his death, to some of the public prints, and do not now repeat it to you because I do not know that it could answer any purpose for your book. But, returning to my proper topic, I saw a yet larger, grander concourse of soldiers at a religious service, in General Bragg's army, while it was encamped in Middle Tennessee, near Shelbyville. Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, preached on a Sabbath afternoon, being assisted in the services by Dr. Quintard, the present Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee. The congregation formed a vast circle, filling up with a dense mass a large opening in the woods, many seated on the logs arranged for the purpose, but many standing and forming the outer circumference, and a few, Zaccheus-like, clambering up and seating themselves in the trees to see and hear. I have permitted myself, under the impulse of feelings
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
348. Clerical Appeal, 282. Clarkson, Thomas, 55, 303. Coffin, Joshua, 139, 198. Cobb, Howell, 338. Collier, Rev. William, 40. Collins, John A., 298, 299, 300, 303. Colonization Society, 60, 72, 144-156, 162. Colored Seaman, 313-314. Colorphobia, 157-169. Colver, Nathaniel, 303. Commercial Advertiser, New York, 170. Courier, Boston, 128, 129, 217. Courier and Enquirer, New York, 171. Corwin, Thomas, 372. Cox, Abraham L., 185, 203, 209. Crandall, Prudence, 165-168, 199. Cresson, Elliott, 150, 151, 153. Cropper, James, 154, 205. Curtin, Andrew G., 372. Curtis, Benjamin R., 354. Cuyler, Rev. Theodore L., 384. Davis, Jefferson, 338, 376. Disunion Convention at Worcester, 361-363. Dole, Ebenezer, 86. Douglas, Stephen A., 353, 365. Douglass, Frederick, 300, 344. Dred Scott Case, 364. Duncan, Rev. James, 008-109. Emancipator, The, 283, 285, 286, 328. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 281. Evening Post, New York, 208. Everett, Edward, 30, 31, 243, 244. Farnham, Martha, 16. Fes
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 5: helps to the revival-colportage. (search)
Testaments, and most excellent tracts in vast numbers, were freely sent forth to all the camps and hospitals from their centre of operations. The Virginia Episcopal Mission Committee heartily united in the work, and spent thousands of dollars per annum in sending missionaries to the army, and in printing and circulating tracts. Rev. Messrs. Gatewood and Kepler, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, were the zealous directors of operations in Virginia, while in other States such men as Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, Doctor, now Bishop, Quintard, of Tennessee, and the lamented General Polk, gave the weight of their influence and the power of their eloquence, written and oral, to promote the cause of religion among our soldiers. At Raleigh, N. C., early in the war, Rev. W. J. W. Crowder commenced the publication of tracts, encouraged and assisted by contributions from all classes of persons. In less than a year he reported: We have published, of thirty different tracts, over 5,000,000
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 16: spring of 1863. (search)
e like bread cast upon the waters. Rev. Samuel H. Smith, chaplain of the 60th Georgia regiment, of Lawton's brigade, camped near Port Royal, Va., referring to the growing revival in that portion of the army, gives a description of the services of a delightful Sabbath: At 11 o'clock A. M., I preached to a large audience from Malachi III: 8, Will a man rob God? At half-past 2 o'clock P. M., Col. Wm. C. Stiles, of the 60th Georgia, read to a very large and interested congregation Bishop Elliott's sermon, delivered in Christ church, Savannah, Ga., on the public thanksgiving day, September 18, 1862. The sermon produced a fine state of feeling throughout the audience. At candle-lighting we met for prayer. Rev. Mr. Chandler, of the 88th Georgia, delivered an exhortation, at the close of which six penitents knelt for prayer. Thus was the Sabbath spent in camp by thousands of Southern soldiers. In the great hospitals, where thousands of sick and wounded lay, the work was as
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 39: General Hood's northward march; Sherman in pursuit; battle of Allatoona (search)
nes of its advance forces. One thing only was left which French very much coveted: that was the field works, pretty well constructed, with auxiliary. outworks, which the Union soldiers still held and were defending with extraordinary obstinacy. If this redoubt could be taken, what a clean sweep there would be of Sherman's line of communications between the Chattahoochee Bridge and the crossing of the Etowah. Sherman's force in and. about Atlanta now numbered little over 60,000. General Elliott then commanded the cavalry-two small divisions under Kilpatrick and Garrard. I have a copy of a letter General Sherman wrote, which I have not seen in print — a sort of offhand communication, such as flew from his pen or pencil in times of emergency: Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, October 2, 1864. General Davis: Communicate with Howard, and be prepared to send into Atlanta all your traps and to move with ten days rations toward Marietta or to Fairburn, as the c
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 14: the minister's wooing, 1857-1859. (search)
Stowe's power lay in that same genius by which the great successes in creative literature have always been achieved,--the genius that instinctively goes right to the organic elements of human nature, whether under a white skin or a black, and which disregards as trivial the conventional and factitious notions which make so large a part both of our thinking and feeling. Works of imagination written with an aim to immediate impression are commonly ephemeral, like Miss Martineau's Tales, and Elliott's Corn-law Rhymes; but the creative faculty of Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes in Don Quixote and of Fielding in Joseph Andrews, overpowered the narrow specialty of her design, and expanded a local and temporary theme with the cosmopolitanism of genius. It is a proverb that There is a great deal of human nature in men, but it is equally and sadly true that there is amazingly little of it in books. Fielding is the only English novelist who deals with life in its broadest sense. Tha
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
2.21; defence printed by G., 1.431, tribute from G., 321, 341; begs him to use mild language, 322, meets him at Brooklyn, 341, at Canterbury, 390; thanked by Nat. A. S. Convention, 413, gifts from Scotland, 434; marries C. Philleo, 321; describes Benson family, 424, names their home, 426.—Letters to G., 1.315, 316, 322, S. S. Jocelyn, 1.342, W. P. G., 1.318. Crandall, Reuben, Dr. [d. about Feb. 1, 1838, at Kingston, Jamaica], 1.494. Crawford, William H. [1772-1834], 1.54. Cresson, Elliott [1796-1854], Colon. emissary to England, 1.301, 328, at his own expense, 374; avoids abolition meetings, 355, visits Wilberforce, 328, deceives him, 359, and Clarkson, 303, 363, 364, 388; rebuffed by Clarkson, 364; maligns G. to Thompson, 435; forwards British Colon. memorial, 303; challenged to debate with G., 352, 366, and with Thompson, 371, dodges, 353, 366, 367, pleads ill health, 371; attends G.'s lecture, 354, abuses Cropper, 355, denied the Wesleyan Chapel, 356; catechized by Wilb
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. Nathaniel Silsbee. (search)
ler she is. I did not forget your birthday, she said, and she placed on my head a crimson wreath and sang and played for me Ole's favorite melody: Near the lake where droops the willow, which he has introduced beautifully in his Niagara, swelling upon the wind instruments as if borne on the wings of angels. Meeting with so much unexpected kindness filled me with universal benevolence. I ran right off and gave a large portion of my violets to my friend, Mrs. F. G. S., who is here under Dr. Elliott's care and blind for the present, and the fragrance refreshed her though she could not see the beautiful tint. Then I ran in another direction and carried my little music-box, and another portion of my violets, to a poor man who is dying slowly. I wanted to give something and do something for the whole world. . . . But I must take care, for my own private theories on this subject touch the verge of radicalism. I have a confession to make to you. I intended to send you some little rat
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