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we had every convenience for religious worship — a large arbor with seats and stands for fire.
Since we have been transferred to Tennessee we have resumed our nightly meetings, either in quarters or upon some neighboring hill, where the shade is good, and where with logs we could construct our rude altar to God.
Such a place as this has truly become a little Bethel to our souls.
I never saw men more concerned about their soul's salvation.
In a little gathering last night, which was greatly interrupted by rain, we had thirty to rise for prayers.
The feeling seems to be deep and earnest.
The members of the different Churches, who number over two hundred in my regiment, are greatly revived and aroused to duty.
I have never found men listen with more profound attention to the word of God.
We seem to be upon the eve of a gracious revival and outpouring of the Holy Spirit, for which we are praying, watching, and struggling.
Rev. F. Milton Kennedy rejoiced in a great revival in the 28th North Carolina regiment:
I am having a delightful meeting in my regiment.
Yesterday I administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper to about one hundred communicants, and many, who have repeatedly met the shock of battle with unquailing hearts, were melted to tenderness and tears by the power of grace.
Last night there were between thirty and forty penitents.
Up to this time, as far as I have been able to ascertain, about fifteen have professed conversion, and upon the first invitation given to candidates for Church-membership (at the close of the communion service on yesterday), sixteen came forward.
I trust the Church at home will remember the army in their prayers.
There is a powerful and growing religious interest prevalent throughout large portions of this army, which only needs the impulse of a prayerful Church at home to sweep through the entire command and transform her heroic soldiery into a sacramental host.
