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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
ley, which I accordingly did. I overtook the Army of the Valley near New Market, reported to General Gordon, whom I had never seen before, and received from him a temporary assignment to Terry's Brigade, of which my old regiment—now reduced to almost nothing— was a constituent part. In a few days Major R. W. Hunter, assistant adjutahtgen-eral to Gordon, bore me a message from the general asking how I would like to make his Headquarters my home and his division my field of labor. Sunday, 22d of October, General Gordon attended my preaching in Terry's Brigade, and invited me to his quarters next day. On the 24th he assigned me to his division, which was now composed of Terry's, Evans's and the Louisiana Brigades. Brothers See, Booker, Gilmore and Williams were in Terry's Brigade; Brother Smith, of the Sixtieth Georgia, in Evans's; and in the Louisiana Brigade there was no chaplain—not even a priest. My labors were therefore directed principally to the last named brigade, to the pi<