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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 50 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 41 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 39 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 37 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 30 10 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 30 0 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 24 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 0 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 19 1 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)
o large a proportion of high officers who were earnest Christian men, as the Army of Northern Virginia. We had at first such specimens of the Christian soldier as R. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, D. H. Hill, T. R. Cobb, A. H. Colquitt, Kirby Smith, J. E. B. Stuart, W. N. Pendleton, John B. Gordon, C. A. Evans, A. M. Scales, Willie Pegram, Lewis Minor Coleman, Thos. H. Carter, Carter Braxton, Charles S. Venable, and a host of others too numerous to mention. And during the war Generals Ewell, Pender, Hood, R. H. Anderson, Rodes, Paxton, W. H. S. Baylor, Colonel Lamar, and a number of others of our best officers professed faith in Christ. Nor was the example of these noble men merely negative— many of them were active workers for the Master, and did not hesitate, upon all proper occasions, to stand up for Jesus. Our Christian President, Jefferson Davis, was always outspoken on the side of evangelical religion, and manifested the deepest interest in all efforts for the spiritual goo
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)
e impending battle would result in another splendid victory for the Army of Northern Virginia, which we hoped would establish the independence of the Confederacy. I remember he spoke calmly of the probability that he might fall, and expressed his full trust in Christ and entire resignation to God's will. Alas! I never saw him again, and the story of his death is thus told in the University Memorial: We have been kindly favored with the following extract from the unpublished report of Pender's Division in the battle of Gettysburg: During a successful charge made to drive the enemy from a road in front of Cemetery Hill, Captain William T. Haskell, First South Carolina Volunteers, in charge of a select battalion of sharpshooters, received a wound from which he died in a few moments, on the field. This brave and worthy young officer, says Colonel Perrin, in his official report of this transaction, fell while nobly walking along the front line of his command, encouraging his
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
on. round Oak Church, April 14, 1863. The chaplains met, according to adjournment, at this place. Brother James Nelson, of the Forty-fourth Virginia Infantry, the last chairman, opened the meeting with a sermon from Romans i. 16, For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, etc. Brother B. T. Lacy, missionary chaplain in the corps, was elected chairman. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Rev. A. R. Benick, of the Thirty-fourth North Carolina Infantry, Pender's Brigade, and Rev. E. B. Barrett, of the Forty-fifth Georgia, appeared and gave in their names. The progress of religion in our army since our last meeting was the first subject taken up. Brother Nelson, of the Forty-fourth Virginia, reported ten conversions in his regiment, among whom was one of its most prominent officers. A number were still concerned deeply. General Trimble had excused the men from drill to attend preaching. Brother Gilmore, of the Twenty-first Virginia, repo