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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
rom military duty all who would work on chapels. The division pioneer corps near by agreed to assist; and Major-General Ed. Johnson courteously offered them inducements to do so. We determined to erect two chapels, one for Fourth and Fifth Regiments, and one for Second, Twentyseventh and Thirty-third and pioneer corps, according to their positions in camp. Owing to the great difficulty of getting teams, the work progressed slowly; but was finally accomplished, and ready for use on Sunday, January 31, 1864. (This refers to our own; the other was ready about the same time.) We adopted in both instances a different form from the preceding one; both were rectangular parallelograms, thus: Zzz (A)=chapel of Second, Twenty-seventh and Thirty-third, situated on a beautiful southern exposure slanting downward from door, D, to chimneys=c c, and pulpit, P, with window, w, at south-east corner and near the eaves of the house, made by sawing a long piece of one big log out and tacking a pi