William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War

[305] can give; the crisis of his beloved country, and the balance trembling between defeat and victory; the precious lives of his veterans, which the inexorable necessities of war compelled him to jeopardize; the immortal souls passing to their account, perhaps unprepared; the widowhood and orphanage which might result from the orders he had just been compelled to issue. And as his beloved men swept by him to the front, into the storm of shot, doubtless his great heart, as tender as it was resolute, yearned over them in unutterable longings and intercessions, that

the Almighty would cover them with his feathers, and that his truth might be their shield and buckler.

Surely, the moral grandeur of this scene was akin to that when Moses stood upon the Mount of God and lifted up his hands while Israel prevailed against Amelek! And what soldier would not desire to have the shield of such prayers under which to fight? Were they not a more powerful element of success than the artillery or the bayonets of the Stonewall Brigade?

The following beautiful tribute to General Jackson was published in the New York Citizen, and is said to be from the pen of a distinguished officer of the United States Navy: