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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 4: influence of Christian officers—concluded. (search)
a very liberal offer for the comfort and support of such an one. But he was very emphatic in saying: I do not want a man who is not both able and willing to endure hardness as a good soldier. The man who cannot endure the fatigues, hardships and privations of our rough riding and hard service, and be in place when needed, would be of no earthly use to us, and is not wanted at my Headquarters. He fell in battle at Yellow Tavern, in a heroic and successful effort to save Richmond from Sheridan's raid in May, 1864, and in the full tide of a brilliant career. But though thus cut down when full of life and hope, he said, when the surgeon expressed the belief that he would ultimately recover: Well, I don't know how this will turn out; but if it is God's will that I shall die, I am ready. He reached the house of his brother-in-law, Dr. Brewer, in Richmond, and began to sink so rapidly that it was very evident to his friends and to himself that he must soon pass away. He calmly ma
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
: Put up your pistol; put up your pistol! What are you flourishing that about here for? Nobody here but one-armed and one-legged and dying men; you needn't be afraid of them. The only misconduct of which we had a right to complain was that they took off half our nurses; and when Colonel Anderson told us the rigid orders from Torbert, which he refused complying with, we felt assured he did all that he dared to do. This was the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Regiment, and had been detached from Sheridan's raiding party upon Trevilliap's Station, with orders to break up our hospital. The Yankee inmates of our hospital behaved gratefully and honorably. They interceded for our men, and none equalled them in their ridicule of the gallant charge and their successful assault upon a fortified camp. I can fairly hear Pat Irishman, of a New Jersey regiment, now, laughing at the flaming heading of some Yankee paper telling of the handsome affair, the number of prisoners taken by the Seventeenth P