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The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Religious condition of our Soldiers, (search)
Religious condition of our Soldiers, Lynchburg, Va. May 6th, 1861. To the Editors of the Dispatch: Having been for some days visiting the camps and hospitals with a view of supplying them with suitable reading matter, I will write a few lines giving some account of the religious condition, of the army, and place them at your disposal. There are about three thousand in the hospitals of this city, and others are being brought here from more exposed paints. It is the purpose of the an horrifies to establish hospitals at Liberty and Farmville. Several hundred sick soldiers are already in these two towne. The hospitals, offered a most inviting field for religious effort. The solemn quiet and the serious reflections which pervade the soul of the sick soldier, who, far away from home and friends, spends so many hours in communing with his own heart, is very conducive of religious improvement. An invalid remarked that during the month he had been at the hospital he ha