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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
, I am aware that this letter is a very poor and indifferent account of the religious standing of my old brigade. Maybe, however, that you can get something out of it. I baptized about two hundred while I was in the army, two years, but nearly half of them were men of other brigades than my own, and converted under the ministry of other men. The Lord bless you in your good work, Yours fraternally, J. J. D. Renfroe. From Captain M. M. Jones, united States army. city of Utica, New York, January 29, 1867. J. Wm. Jones: Dear Sir: Being a subscriber to the Richmond Religious Herald, I read your card of the 17th instant, and for some reason hardly describable am disposed to write you. I have a notion that a religious history of your Army Northern Virginia will be a highly interesting and useful book. My personal intercourse with the men (a few of them) who composed that army impressed my mind with the fact that religious interests were much better and more general