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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 2: influence of Christian officers. (search)
and those humble privates found themselves leading the devotions of their loved and honored chieftain. It is related that as his army was crossing the James, in 1864, and hurrying on to the defence of Petersburg, General Lee turned aside from the road and, kneeling in the dust, devoutly joined a minister present in earnest prayr. No one ever rendered him a service, however humble, that was not instantly and gratefully acknowledged, however lowly the person might be. During the summer of 1864, after he had been holding at bay the tremendous forces of General Grant for long weeks, retreating step by step, as he was outflanked by overwhelming numbers, unterning the first day at Spottsylvania by saying: I am most thankful to the Giver of all victory that our loss is small. And that concerning the action of June 3, 1864, with: Our loss to-day has been small, and our success under the blessing of God all that we could expect. . . . . He closed his announcement of A. P. Hill's br
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 4: influence of Christian officers—concluded. (search)
in the glowing chronicles of medieval knighthood, in the ranks of war, in the halls of learning, in the temple of religion, a nobler name is not registered than his, nor a nobler spirit mourned. Captain Hugh A. White, who graduated at Washington College, and was a student at Union Theological Seminary when the war broke out, was a specimen of the Christian officer well worthy of a full sketch in this chapter; but space can be found for only brief extracts from the memoir of him written in 1864 by his venerable father, Rev. Dr. W. S. White, then pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Virginia. The sketch of his leaving home for the army is given in full, as it well illustrates the spirit not only of this noble young man, but of thousands of others of our Boys in Gray: He remained at the seminary until his second session closed. He stood his examinations, attended the marriage of a friend, and reached home about the middle of May, 1861. He was then twenty years and
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 5: Bible and colportage work. (search)
ld gratefully remember, even if they had not continued, after the war, to make grants, amounting to considerably over $100,000, to circulate God's word among the needy of our Southern land. I find this item in a file of the Religious Herald for 1864: On an application by Rev. Levi Thorne, of North Carolina, approved by Governor Vance, 100,000 Bibles and Testaments, principally for North Carolina troops in the Confederate service, were granted by the American Bible Society, New York, at its published and distributed in the army 30,187,000 pages of tracts, 31,000 Bibles and Testaments, 14,000 Camp Hymns, and thousands upon thousands of religious books sent by the people from their homes, and religious papers without number. During 1864 sixty colporters were kept at work in the army. These were kept supplied with tracts, Bibles and Testaments, but for this year the exact records have been lost. I regret that I have been unable to obtain fuller and more exact reports of the ot
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 7: work of the chaplains and missionaries. (search)
ith a good chaplain and one which has none. The men are more orderly, better contented, and really more efficient. Now and then I meet with an officer who appreciates all this, and even some irreligious colonels seek the co-operation of a good chaplain in their desire to render their regiments as efficient as possible. The denominations generally appointed some of their best men to enter the army as missionaries, and supplemented the scant salaries of the chaplains. It was reported in 1864 that The Old School Presbyterians employed, the past Assembly-year , 130 missionaries and chaplains in our different armies; and contributions to that work fell little short of $80,000. These laborers reported, at the General Assembly, in its meeting at Charlotte, the conversion of 12,000 soldiers during the year. But the work of the chaplains and missionaries will further appear as our narrative proceeds, and it will be seen that we had an earnest, zealous, and faithful corps of laborers.
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 8: eagerness of the soldiers to hear the Gospel. (search)
rruption from them. On the bloody campaign from the Rapidan to Cold Harbor in 1864, when the army was constantly in the trenches or on the march, and fought almosty-woods Georgian; but he was a perfect hero in a fight. 'Twas at Cold Harbor in 1864. We had been all day shelling a working party of the enemy, and about sunset, arenches, but I can find space now for only one other incident. In the summer of 1864 I preached a good deal in Wright's Georgia Brigade, where we had a precious reviut the chapel-building reached its climax along the Rapidan in the winter of 1863-64, and along the Richmond and Petersburg lines in the winter of 1864-65. The gre1864-65. The great revival which swept through our camps on the return of the army from the Gettysburg campaign, and which resulted in the professed conversion of thousands and the qg eye. There were forty chapels built along the Rapidan in the winter of 1863-64, and over sixty the next winter along the Richmond and Petersburg lines, notwiths
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 11: the great revival along the Rapidan. (search)
ina, Law's Alabama, Anderson's Georgia, Steuart's Virginia, Stonewall (Virginia), Iverson's North Carolina, Cooke's North Carolina, H. H. Walker's Virginia and Tennessee, McGowan's South Carolina, and a number of the artillery battalions and cavalry regiments. This revival work went graciously on, and though the Bristoe campaign, Longstreet's move to the battle of Chickamauga and his East Tennessee campaign, the cold weather which prevented outdoor services, and the very active campaign of 1864, all tended to interrupt the regular services, the interest by no means ceased, and there was no time at which there was not a precious revival in some of the commands. Charleston, December 28. I am glad to inform you that the good work commenced in the Twenty-sixth Virginia Regiment at Burton's farm still continues. Brother Wiatt (chaplain) has baptized fifteen since they reached Charleston, and others are waiting to be baptized, and still others are concerned about their souls. They
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 12: progress of the work in 1864-65. (search)
Chapter 12: progress of the work in 1864-65. There were some peculiar difficulties in the way of our work during the period embraced in this chapter. The severe weather of the winter and early ty miles of Confederate entrenchments, where there were about sixty chapels, during the winter of 1864—65 were as general and as powerful as any we had at all, and only ceased when the army was disbanning October I, 1863, and ending September 30, 1864. It may be proper to say that on October I, 1864, I accepted an appointment from the Virginia Baptist Sunday-school and Publication Board as missiaunton hospitals. occasional. Applewood, December 31, 1864. To-day closes the eventful year 1864! Reflections crowd the memory almost to stupefaction. Faith and patience have their amplest vereath— these linger forever, a sweet savor in my memory. God be praised for what our eyes saw, our ears heard, and our hearts felt of His presence and power during that memorable campaign of 1864-
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 13: results of the work and proofs of its genuineness (search)
money to squander on himself and never a dime for the cause of benevolence or God's suffering poor. I have never seen more princely liberality than among these Christian soldiers. I have some old subscription papers— for regimental library, for tracts, Bibles and religious newspapers, for the Fredericksburg sufferers, and other benevolent objects— which show on the part of these men a self-sacrificing liberality which would put to shame any Church in the land to-day. In the winter of 1863-64 the Young Men's Christian Association of Posey's (afterwards Harris's) Mississippi Brigade led off in a movement which was followed by a number of other brigades, and deserves to be written in letters of gold on one of the brightest pages of our country's history. They solemnly resolved to fast one day in every week in order that they might send that day's rations to the suffering poor of the city of Richmond. Think of it, church-members, who, in these days of plenty, plead poverty as an exc
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
ed. He was killed near Drewry's Bluff, May Io, 1864, leaving a young bride and many dear ones to mo and well sustained throughout the campaigns of 1864, while in line of battle around Richmond, the i when in winter-quarters at Frederick Hall (1863-64) did I conduct a Bible-class with my own hand, bved it. At Chapin's Farm, early in spring of 1864, General Lee sent his military carriage to Rich Returning, myself, just before the campaign of 1864, I entered earnestly into the work of spirituareach. He was killed September 19, Winchester, 1864. R. A. Moore, another licentiate of the Baptiste hospital he did much good. April campaign, 1864, we numbered about 300 in camp; about one-fourt almost without intermission. In the spring of 1864 the work commenced afresh. When I entered my rs. At Gordonsville, Virginia, in the spring of 1864, our brigade was blessed with a considerable renes with them. Through the awful campaign of 1864 there were very limited opportunities to preach[3 more...]
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix no. 2: the work of grace in other armies of the Confederacy. (search)
without a congregation. Wishing to find some other troops to whom I might preach before the opening of the campaign of 1864, I went some two or three miles south-east of Dalton, where I found a battalion of artillery, commanded by Major Johnston and Sunday, 7th, the division was marching to McMinnville. Captain Brady, a most excellent Christian, killed in Georgia, 1864. From McMinnville we marched to Woodberry, thence to Reedyville, where we encamped on Stone's River. Here I met Genera to do his duty to God and his country. The Army of Tennessee encamped around Dalton, Georgia, the entire winter of 1863-64, and until May, in the spring—over five months. The post quartermaster furnished me with room No. 1, at the Chester House, orer in the cause of Christ and our country, S. M. Cherry, Central District Agent army of Tennessee. Report for may, 1864. receiving and Distributing hospital, Marietta, Georgia, May 31, 1864.To Rev. Robert J. Harp, Superintendent Southw