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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 294 294 Browse Search
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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 2: influence of Christian officers. (search)
Almighty God, that He will graciously restore to our beloved country the blessings of peace and security. In faith whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the city of Richmond on the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. Jefferson Davis. Again do I call the people of the Confederacy—a people who believe that the Lord reigneth, and that His overruling Providence ordereth all things—to unite in prayer and humble submission undrefore, earnestly recommended that the troops unite, on Sunday next, in ascribing unto the Lord of hosts the glory due unto His name. In closing his general order for the observance of the fast-day appointed by President Davis in the spring of 1863, he makes the following earnest appeal: Soldiers! No portion of our people have greater cause to be thankful to Almighty God than yourselves. He has preserved your lives amidst countless dangers. He has been with you in all your trials. He has
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 4: influence of Christian officers—concluded. (search)
st three months after the organization of his company, in the Camp of Instruction, near Richmond, where I was in daily intercourse with him. In addition to my pastoral duties in the city, I served as chaplain in that camp during the years 1862 and 1863. Captain Harrison was with me longer than any other minister in the service, and delighted to avail himself of every opportunity of aiding me in my arduous work. Whenever I was prevented by any cause from meeting my engagements, he was always r higher regard than any others who knew him well, I append the following eloquent tribute to his memory, from the pen of the Rev. Joseph M. Atkinson, of Raleigh, North Carolina. It is taken from a Southern periodical, in which it was published in 1863: While our church or our country shall survive; while freedom, or religion, or learning, the noblest gifts of nature, or the brightest instincts of personal or hereditary worth, shall be treasured among men, never will the name and the memory o
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 5: Bible and colportage work. (search)
which have been distributed, and thus have been led to turn unto the Lord. In his report for 1863, in the midst of the war, he says: Modern history presents no example of armies so nearly cwith it the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. At the meeting of the same body in 1863, this board was instructed to correspond with pastors suited to the work and endeavor to engage boards; and, if deemed expedient, be authorized to make arrangements therefor. During 1862 and 1863 alone this Sunday-school and Publication Board collected for army colportage $84,000. It publisheefforts. The annual report of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Soldiers' Tract Association for 1863 shows a receipt during the year of $95,456.71, and a disbursement of $64,470.60. The association D. D. The board has also succeeded at last in getting through the press The Soldiers' Almanac for 1863, prepared by Rev. George B. Taylor. In its selections, this bears the marks of the editor's usu
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 7: work of the chaplains and missionaries. (search)
Chapter 7: work of the chaplains and missionaries. Unquestionably one of the most potent factors in the grand success of our work was the union of hearts and hands on the part of chaplains and missionaries, and indeed of all Christian workers of the evangelical denominations. The gifted and lamented Dr. Wm. J. Hoge thus wrote of a visit he made to Fredericksburg in the spring of 1863, during the great revival in Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade: The Rev. Dr. Burrows, of the First Baptist Church, Richmond, was to have preached that night, but as he would remain some days and I could only stay a day, he courteously insisted on my preaching. And so we had a Presbyterian sermon, introduced by Baptist services, under the direction of a Methodist chaplain, in an Episcopal church. Was not that a beautiful solution of the vexed problem of Christian union? This was but a type of what was usual all through the army. No one was asked or expected to compromise in the least the peculi
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 8: eagerness of the soldiers to hear the Gospel. (search)
Let us first visit the battered old town of Fredericksburg in the early weeks of 1863. We enter at sundown, just as the regiments of Barksdale's Brigade of heroic Mifficulties, one of the chaplains reported that one Sunday in the early winter of 1863 there came a fall of snow, which he supposed would entirely break up his Sunday Several times during the revival in Gordon's Georgia Brigade in the autumn of 1863, Rev. T. H. Pritchard, of North Carolina, or Rev. Andrew Broaddus, of Kentucky, But the chapel-building reached its climax along the Rapidan in the winter of 1863-64, and along the Richmond and Petersburg lines in the winter of 1864-65. Themming eye. There were forty chapels built along the Rapidan in the winter of 1863-64, and over sixty the next winter along the Richmond and Petersburg lines, notwentucky Andrew). He went to labor in one of the brigade chapels in the winter of 1863, when he was told that he could accomplish nothing, as the large theatre which h
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 10: revivals in the Lower Valley and around Fredericksburg. (search)
., and distributing thousands of pages of tracts, and many Bibles and Testaments, and performing much other labor which may not be written here, but whose record is on high. Carefully compiled statistics show that, in the fall and winter of 1862-63, and spring of 1863, there were, at the very lowest estimate, at least 1,500 professions of conversion in Lee's army. I must omit a vast amount of material which I had collected concerning this period, and insert only the following: Headquart1863, there were, at the very lowest estimate, at least 1,500 professions of conversion in Lee's army. I must omit a vast amount of material which I had collected concerning this period, and insert only the following: Headquarters, Forty-Fourth Virginia Regiment, April 15. Revivals of religion are contagious. There are times in the history of the Church when God seems to be more willing to give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him than at others; therefore sinners are commanded to repent, that their sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. The same gracious Heavenly Father that has owned and revived His work at Fredericksburg, and in other portions of the arm
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 12: progress of the work in 1864-65. (search)
helped us in our labors, and blessed our poor efforts during this period, I give the following report of one of the missionaries for the year beginning October I, 1863, and ending September 30, 1864. It may be proper to say that on October I, 1864, I accepted an appointment from the Virginia Baptist Sunday-school and Publicationive no guess even as to their numbers. The Georgia Conference determined, if possible, to furnish one missionary to each Georgia Brigade, and at the session of 1863 the work was begun by sending seven ministers: R. B. Lester to Jackson's Brigade, Army of Tennessee; A. M. Thigpen to Colquitt's Brigade, near Charleston; J. W. Tulike the Israelites, we are passing through darkness drear to better and brighter prospects beyond. Among the memories of the past my mind rests upon the close of 1863. Then in prison on Johnston's Island we thought it not unfitting to spend the day in religious observances. The 103d Psalm was read and briefly commented on. Off
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 13: results of the work and proofs of its genuineness (search)
the four years of its existence. During the fall and winter of 1862-63, and spring of 1863, there were at least 1,500 professions. From Aug1863, there were at least 1,500 professions. From August, 1863, to the 1st of January, 1864, at least 5,000 found peace in believing. From January, 1864, to the opening of the Wilderness campaigned unto God. The Southern Baptist Convention, at its session for 1863, adopted the following resolutions: Resolved, That it is the sould put to shame any Church in the land to-day. In the winter of 1863-64 the Young Men's Christian Association of Posey's (afterwards Harrthe bare branches of his ancestral oaks, that bleak January morning, 1863, it was to see them no more forever. Although still lame from his wirm to be tempted or misled by others. These qualities caused me in 1863 to make him chief clerk of the adjutant-general's office of my staff is said of him, while in winter-quarters near Fredericksburg in 1862-63: He spent the winter much as he had done the last, attending to
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
ing showers of grace as we enjoyed in Orange in 1863. Yours in Christian love, R. W. Cridlin. Choccupying their minds. In winter of 1862 and 1863, after the first battle of Fredericksburg, we w particularly a Bible. At this time, spring of 1863, I think the religious interest was more generads Thirty-fourth Infantry, during the summer of 1863, while the brigade enjoyed its quiet time of set a Sabbath night that I spent in the spring of 1863, in the then war-battered town of Fredericksburere, must have reaped, in those early months of 1863, a glorious harvest indeed! But I remember n a part of the 176 above.) The great revival of 1863 was shared by our battalion, and its fruits reaOnly when in winter-quarters at Frederick Hall (1863-64) did I conduct a Bible-class with my own hanered to Tennessee, you remember, in the fall of 1863, when till late in the winter we were marching t Fredericksburg, in the early part of the year 1863. There were then three other chaplains in that[9 more...]
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix no. 2: the work of grace in other armies of the Confederacy. (search)
had been formed in this army in August of this year (1863), but the subsequent movements interfered greatly wi own and other corps during the winter and spring of 1863–‘64. Beginning his work in General Gist's brigade, his narrative of the great revival in the summer of 1863: Charleston, South Carolina, was a point of greatommenced our work in earnest. Through the winter of 1863–‘64 we kept up our meetings in camp, had seats and pere scattered among the troops during this winter of 1863, when for the first time in the history of this army friend, General John B. Gordon. As the spring of 1863 approached, and the Union forces began to concentrat Stone's River, northwest of Murfreesboro, January:, 1863. Went out to the line to talk with the boys of our ncamped around Dalton, Georgia, the entire winter of 1863-64, and until May, in the spring—over five months. T At Tyner's Station, near Chattanooga, the summer of 1863, we had arbors prepared of pine, or black-jack po