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had frequently to be shaken from the blankets of the sleepers.
With all their ingenuity they could not keep warm, and numbers of them will suffer from the expo.
sure of this dreadful storm for all time to come.
To add to the horrors of their situation many of them were sick.
and the wailing wind and searching cold added fresh terrors to their sufferings.
This is but a sample of what was endured in all the
Northern prisons.
Can any calamity upon a nation be worse than war?
But let us turn from these sad scenes to a more cheerful picture opening in the far
Southwest.
Beyond the
Mississippi, as
Dr. Kavanaugh has already related, his work and that of his co-laborers was greatly blessed of God.
In a letter to
Bishop Paine, of the
M. E. Church, South, he gave a report of the revival and its results in two months:
Gen. Fagan's Arkansas Brigade-Members received into Army church, 209; conversions, 85. Gen. Churchill's Arkansas Brigade-Joined the Army church, 112; converted, 35. Gen. Tappan's Arkansas Brigade-Joined, 245; converted, 40. Gen. Parson's Mississippi Brigade-Joined, 85; converted, 35.
Total members Army church, 651; conversions, 195.
The Army church was organized before my arrival; gotten up by Bro. Martin, (now Bishop M. E. Church, South,) aided by others.
It has worked well.
In Tappan's brigade, the devoted chaplains have built a large log church, 60 by 80 feet, and are determined to keep up their meetings.
I dedicate it next Sunday.
I am greatly delighted with my work on this side of the river.
I have gone into it with all my energy, and indeed over-did my strength the first round; but as the weather is not so favorable for out-door work this round I shall not be able to preach so often.
It is truly delightful to see the work prosper in our hands as it has done for the past two months.
