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Thomas Hume (search for this): chapter 5
stances. On many accounts, this has been arduous service; but I have felt in my soul a recompense, as these have generally evinced great interest in my visits among them. The three chaplains on duty here are very attentive to the hospitals, and co-operate with me heartily. Another large hospital will be opened here very soon. There are also some regiments quartered around us, which I intend to visit. I feel that this is a great work in which I am engaged. Pray for me. Yours truly, T. Hume. March 12, 1863. Brother M. D. Anderson: I have for some time been aiding in a revival now in progress at Fredericksburg, at which upwards of sixty soldiers have professed conversion. Last night about one hundred asked for the prayers of Christians. A great work is going on. Brother G. C. Trevillian, Lynchburg, Virginia: We have a soldiers' reading room here, which is well supplied with religious papers. Our hospitals are very much thinned out. A few days since I was sent for t
W. L. Fitcher (search for this): chapter 5
certainly died a most happy death. To-day a soldier, after receiving from me a few tracts and a book, handed me five dollars as a donation to the board. Rev. W. L. Fitcher, Petersburg, Virginia: The work of the Lord is progressing in Petersburg. We scarcely ever go to the hospital without finding some one concerned about the one of the libraries were Bunyan's Practical Works; and in a day or so after the enterprise began nine volumes of Bunyan had been taken out. A. E. D. Rev. W. L. Fitcher, Petersburg: There is still much religious interest here among the soldiers. I handed, this morning, to an aged soldier, the tract, The sick and the Physiche most useful Baptist ministers in Georgia, Elders J. H. Campbell, S. Landrum and D. G. Daniel, are now acting as tract distributers for us at Savannah. Rev. W. L. Fitcher writes, from Petersburg, Virginia: I have enjoyed many interesting seasons among the soldiers since I've been in your employ. Have always been kindly recei
William G. Margrave (search for this): chapter 5
ections, hence the chaplain cannot be with them all. Before we left North Carolina there were 137 in the regiment penitently inquiring after the Saviour. Rev. W. G. Margrave: Besides laboring here and there in the camps and hospitals, I have paid special attention to the sick in Lewisburg. Just before I left home, I visited a s not pointed me to that glorious Refuge, which I trust has indeed been a refuge to me from the storm; for I now feel that I can hope and trust in Christ. Rev. W. G. Margrave, who is alluded to in the following letter, was spared to continue his work until some years after the war, when, full of labors and ripe for heaven, he wenlled home to heaven, he will be held in everlasting remembrance by those whom he has won for Christ. A. E. D. A few days since, a lady said to Elder William G. Margrave: My husband, before he became a soldier, rarely ever read the word of God, but now he delights in perusing its blessed pages. He hopes that his sins are f
M. M. McCrimmon (search for this): chapter 5
a Source of Comfort and Courage to Christians, by Rev. A. M. Poindexter, D. D.— For the Confederate army, by Hon. M. J. Wellborn.— David, by Professor Geo. E. Dabney—and We pray for you at home, by Rev. John A. Broadus, D. D. Besides these, the board has issued, in conjunction with the Georgia Bible and Colportage Society, editions of the following excellent new tracts: Woman's words to the soldiers, by Mrs. L. N. Boykin— To arms! To arms! by Rev. C. D. Mallory— The mourner, by Mrs. M. M. McCrimmon—and A proclamation of peace, by Rev. J. L. Dagg, D. D. The board has also succeeded at last in getting through the press The Soldiers' Almanac for 1863, prepared by Rev. George B. Taylor. In its selections, this bears the marks of the editor's usual piety, judgment and taste. The following is from one of the most useful ministers we ever had in Virginia: Petersburg, February, 1863. Dear Brother Dickinson: I do not know whether regular reports are required of your col
J. H. Harris (search for this): chapter 5
more. I administered the ordinance of baptism (for the first time) a few Sabbaths since, in the Appomattox river, to a young soldier from Alabama. It was the most deeply interesting and beautiful scene I ever witnessed. All of the soldiers who were able to leave their rooms gathered upon the banks of the river, and seemed to have a high appreciation of the ordinance. Rev. Wm. Huff, Marion, Virginia: Our colporters now in the Western army are laboring with encouraging prospects. Rev. J. H. Harris is visiting General Marshall's command. He finds them destitute, and anxious for something to read. He says: After the labors of the day it is truly gratifying to see them grouped together, reading aloud to each other such portions of their tracts as interest them most, and speaking in the highest praise of the little camp hymn-books. . . . Rev. M. D. Anderson: I formed the acquaintance of a noble young man, the nephew of a most useful Baptist minister. Found him interested in re
Lamb (search for this): chapter 5
heaven; and the camp becomes a school of Christ. From the very first day of the unhappy contest to the present time, religious influences have been spreading among the soldiers, until now, in camp and hospital, throughout every portion of the army, revivals display their precious, saving power. In one of these revivals over three hundred are known as having professed conversion, while, doubtless, there are hundreds of others equally blessed, whose names, unrecorded here, find a place in the Lamb's book of life. And in 1865, in reviewing the blessed work of saving souls amid the bloody scenes of four gloomy years, the board said: Millions of pages of tracts have been put in circulation, and thousands of sermons delivered by the sixty missionaries whom we have sent to our brave armies. If it could be known by us here and now how many souls have been saved by this agency, doubtless the announcement would fill us with surprise and rejoicing. Hundreds and thousands, we verily b
Hugh A. White (search for this): chapter 5
efront of the battle, and had died in the hospital in the full assurance of the Christian faith, and with warm expressions concerning the comfort and joy which that Bible had given him. I then gave it to my old university friend and brother, Edwin Bowie, of Westmoreland county, who was badly wounded, but survived the war, and only last year the book, around which so many hallowed associations and precious memories cluster, was returned to Dr. Sydnor. Garland Sydnor was a cousin of Captain Hugh A. White, whose death has been described in the previous chapter, and there are some interesting coincidences in their lives, and the circumstances attending their death, which seem worthy of record: 1. They were near the same age—Hugh born in September, 1840, and Garland in March, 1843. 2. They were sons of ministers of the Gospel. 3. Like Timothy, they knew the Scriptures from childhood, each having been taught by a pious mother and a pious grandmother. 4. Each made a public pro
A. M. Marshall (search for this): chapter 5
dinance of baptism (for the first time) a few Sabbaths since, in the Appomattox river, to a young soldier from Alabama. It was the most deeply interesting and beautiful scene I ever witnessed. All of the soldiers who were able to leave their rooms gathered upon the banks of the river, and seemed to have a high appreciation of the ordinance. Rev. Wm. Huff, Marion, Virginia: Our colporters now in the Western army are laboring with encouraging prospects. Rev. J. H. Harris is visiting General Marshall's command. He finds them destitute, and anxious for something to read. He says: After the labors of the day it is truly gratifying to see them grouped together, reading aloud to each other such portions of their tracts as interest them most, and speaking in the highest praise of the little camp hymn-books. . . . Rev. M. D. Anderson: I formed the acquaintance of a noble young man, the nephew of a most useful Baptist minister. Found him interested in reference to his soul, and endea
C. F. Fry (search for this): chapter 5
ngs on a company the other day, some wept freely, thus evincing their concern. Oh, let us labor for these dear souls! Many of them may be won to Christ. Brother C. F. Fry, Winchester: I have been laboring in this place nearly two weeks. The most of my time has been spent in visiting the sick. Last Sunday I visited the hospita Grimsley writes, from Culpeper county: God is blessing us up here. Many of our brave boys have professed conversion. God grant that the work may spread. Rev. C. F. Fry: The past month I have spent in Winchester, Woodstock, and Staunton. Several have expressed themselves as being anxiously concerned about the great salvation there is for books and tracts. I could give many interesting incidents, as related to me, of the good results from reading your publications, but must close. C. F. Fry. The above details might be almost indefinitely multiplied, and the work of the colporters described up to the very close of the war; for they carried the
Elder J. A. Doll (search for this): chapter 5
ffecting remarks in reference to his son, who had recently entered the service, and spoke of the solicitude his wife felt, and of some of the efforts she had made in his behalf. Rev. J. B. Jeter publicly thanked Brother Clopton for his speech, and remarked that he had promised the superintendent of colportage a tract, and that Brother Clopton had furnished him with a theme, A mother's parting words to her soldier boy. And in a few days the tract was written and printed. A. E. D. Elder J. A. Doll writes: Scottsville, October 2. We have a gracious revival here, going on among the soldiers and citizens. One service is held during the day in one of our hospitals, and another at night in the church. A goodly number of soldiers and citizens have already professed conversion, and the prospect is cheering. A private letter from a soldier who was in the Maryland campaign, published in the South-western Baptist, says: I had my Bible in my right breast-pocket, and a ball stru
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