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Heroic chaplains.--We gather several reported instances of heroic devotion on the part of chaplains.
They are not exceptional instances.
We doubt not that a weekly record longer than this, and as conspicuous, could be presented, if we only could know the facts of the life of our chaplains:
At the battle of Roanoke Island, the Rev. Mr. James, of Worcester, Mass., when the officers were shot down
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around a gun, sprang forward, encouraged the men, and worked in the midst of them as a gunner.
The Rev. John L. Lenhart, the chaplain of the Cumberland, remained at his post with the surgeons among the wounded, and went down with his ship, nobly dying at the post of duty.
Brother Lenhart was a Methodist minister, and had been in the navy since 1847.
He was greatly beloved by the officers and crew of the Cumberland.
The Rev. Orlando N. Benton, Chaplain of the New-York Fifty-first, fell at the battle of the Neuse, near Newbern.
He was a Presbyterian pastor at Apalachin, Tioga County, N. Y.--New-York Examiner.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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