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China (China) (search for this): chapter 15
he religion of the Confederate army. The present writer honestly believes that history presents no accurate or ample parallel. The stern piety and invincible principles of Cromwell and his forces in war with Charles 1 of England are freely admitted and much admired, but they had no such happy influence on men and communities as the tender and refining power of the faith of the Confederate soldiers had on them and this country. The religious devotion of Havelock, John and Henry Lawrence, Chinese Gordon, and other great English heroes, was circumscribed too greatly by conditions to produce anything like a national result in India and elsewhere. Even our own revolutionary fathers, while led by the wisdom, the patience, the faith and constancy of George Washington, to whom the world is indebted for American freedom and institutions, left us no such general record of religious fervor and faith in God as had their grand illustration in the armies of the Confederate States. From the in
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
welfare of Tennesseeans in common with others; but the specific work of preaching and holding many and manifold services was done by Tennessee chaplains and missionaries with earnestness and constancy to the day of surrender. The following list of names is given in the alphabetical order of churches as far as is known to the writer. Earnest efforts to procure a fuller list have failed of signal results. Sincere thanks are extended to Rev. J. H. McNeilly, D. D., and Rev. S. M. Cherry, of Nashville, for special favors. There may be errors in initials and church relations in the appended list, and it is not supposed to represent all, or nearly all, the religious influence exerted on the soldiers of the army of the Confederate States from Tennessee, but the names given are those of men who gave themselves fully to the cause of Christ for our men in the awful conflict. Some names are added which represent great religious benefits to the soldiers because of the character of the men wh
Adam (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
habitation of God by His spirit constitutes the Church, agree, for their edification and for the conversion of their fellowmen, to organize the Church of the Army, with the following articles of faith and constitution: I. We believe the scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the word of God, the only rule of faith and obedience. II. We believe in one God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. III. We believe in the fall in Adam, the redemption by Christ, and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. IV. We believe in justification by faith alone, and therefore receive and rest upon Christ as our only hope. V. We believe in the communion of saints and the doctrine of eternal rewards and punishments. The Christian men who have been baptized, adopting these articles of faith and constitution in each regiment, shall choose ten officers to take the spiritual oversight of the same. Of the officers so elected, the chapla
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
d of war which threatens to engulf our freedom rides a pure Christianity; the gospel of the grace of God shines through smoke of battle with the light that leads to heaven, and the camp becomes a school of Christ. It was but a short time, after what the Baptists thus started, until Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Cumberland Presbyterians and other denominations were vigorously pursuing the same pious work, and many Union organizations and individuals did likewise. One earnest North Carolina preacher published and gave away, by the help of friends, more than 2,500,000 pages of tracts in less than a year, besides selling at cost about the same number. This kind of beneficent service greatly aided the systematic labors of the ministry of the gospel in all parts of the Confederacy, and as the mighty conflict of war deepened, most powerful and practical results followed in the conversion of many thousand soldiers to Christ as their Savior, among whom were hundreds of officers,
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
w from the American Union and formed the Confederate States of America. They inherited from their forefathers the doctrines of the Bible than that part of the United States which has been long distinctly and historically rovidence was a common feeling throughout the Confederate States. It is to be admitted that while this is trution of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States in 1860, to the end of the war in 1865, a great stilities. This call by the President of the Confederate States was honored by the churches throughout the Soers in both civil and military circles of the Confederate States, and it is scarcely necessary to say how positheir grand illustration in the armies of the Confederate States. From the inception of the war between the Sh which Confederate soldiers, as citizens of the United States, having returned to peaceful pursuits of life atce exerted on the soldiers of the army of the Confederate States from Tennessee, but the names given are those
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
Chapter 15: Tennessee and the Church. Rev. M. B. Dewitt, Chaplain of the Eighth Tennessee. To one who had an active part in the great signally vouchsafed to his command during the recent campaign in west Tennessee, and deeply penetrated with a sense of dependence on the mercy llustration of what is meant, on one occasion the Rev. W. Burr of Tennessee, a Methodist minister, held services and men were converted whom to witness the lives of such men as Lieut.-Gen. A. P. Stewart of Tennessee, and Brigadier-General Lowrey of Mississippi, whose religion was dier-citizen. As the present history emphasizes the part which Tennessee bore in the great scenes of the civil war, it is important to givk of preaching and holding many and manifold services was done by Tennessee chaplains and missionaries with earnestness and constancy to the xerted on the soldiers of the army of the Confederate States from Tennessee, but the names given are those of men who gave themselves fully t
Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
o fell, saw up, hew and adapt trees, rive boards, prepare timbers as needed, and build churches and chapels for regimental and brigade worship. Large shelters on posts and beams, open all around, were provided in places for brigade services, where in good weather great audiences gathered, and where series of meetings were held in which thousands were converted to Christ. In the summer of 1863, while the army of Tennessee under General Bragg was resting and recruiting along the base of Missionary ridge near Chattanooga, Wright's brigade of Tennesseeans made a large brush arbor, where the three chaplains in that command, Rev. W. H. Browning, Tilman Page and the present writer, held a series of meetings for five weeks, in which we estimated that 225 men became Christians, and we quit the work to enter upon the famous campaign which culminated in the great battle of Chickamauga. There is no doubt that scores of those converts fell in that awful conflict, heroically illustrating two gra
Tupelo (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
l be suspended on that day. He followed this with orders to all officers commanding to give their attention to the maintenance of order and quiet around the place of worship, and prohibit anything that may tend to disturb or interrupt religious exercises. Of all the great leaders in the Confederate armies, it is doubtless true that many persons, North and South, held the opinion that Gen. N. B. Forrest was the most reckless and wicked. The famous cavalier issued a general order from Tupelo, Miss., May 14, 1864, in which he said: The major-general commanding, devoutly grateful to the providence of Almighty God, so signally vouchsafed to his command during the recent campaign in west Tennessee, and deeply penetrated with a sense of dependence on the mercy of God in the present crisis of our beloved country, requests that military duties be so far suspended that divine service may be attended at 10 o'clock a. m. to-morrow by the whole command. Divine service will be held at these h
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
nksgiving, and especially to beseech a throne of grace for aid in this, our country's hour of need. A very brown clipping lies before the writer, which is an article from the Army and Navy Herald, published during the war, headed Forrest and Providence, in which the above General Order, No. 4 is printed, and the editor says: The general is far from being a Christian, it is true, in many of his moments of excitement, but no man is more truly a believer in the God of the Bible and Providence, oProvidence, or more ready to acknowledge his wrongs and his faith. Let it be written here that that belief, which was theoretical in his head during the war, became, after its close, experimental and practical by his public profession of it, in uniting with the church in Memphis, of which his devout wife was a member. What has been recorded above is given simply as examples of the spirit and course of the great body of the leaders in both civil and military circles of the Confederate States, and it is sc
J. W. Cullom (search for this): chapter 15
sionary, army of Tennessee; S. M. Cherry, chaplain and missionary, army of Tennessee; A. Tribble, Fourth Tennessee; F. E. Pitts, Eleventh Tennessee; J. A. Ellis, Twentieth Tennessee; R. P. Ransom, Sixteenth Tennessee. W. Burr, Twenty-eighth Tennessee; T. Page, Fifty-first Tennessee; W. H. Browning, Carter's brigade; A. W. Smith, Twenty-fifth Tennessee; J. Cross, W. Mooney, J. P. McFerrin, J. W. Johnson, R. A. Wilson, F. A. Kimball, F. S. Petway, M. L. Whitten, P. G. Jamison, J. G. Bolton, J. W. Cullom (commands not known). Presbyterian—J. H. Bryson, missionary, army of Tennessee; W. Eagleton, R. McCoy and R. Lapsley, chaplains to hospitals; J. B. Chapman, Thirty-second Tennessee; J. H. McNeilly, Forty-ninth Tennessee; J. B. Mack, Fifty-fifth Tennessee; H. B. Bonde, captain and chaplain. Protestant Episcopal—C. T. Quintard, First Tennessee, and missionary, army of Tennessee, and Rev. Mr. Schrevar (command not known). Ministers as officers. (Very imperfect list.) Col. D. C.
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