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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 8: eagerness of the soldiers to hear the Gospel. (search)
eached nearly the whole army, and really did not cease until the surrender at Appomattox. On Sunday evening, September 6, 1863, I had an engagement to preach for Brother J. J. D. Renfroe, chaplain of the Tenth Alabama, in the great revival in Wilcox's Brigade, camped near the Rapidan, not far from Orange Court House. As further illustrating the character of our world, I may mention that I preached to a large congregation in my own brigade at 6 o'clock that morning. At II o'clock I went to and a half north of Orange Court House, where Dr. Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline county (acting for Chaplain Hilary E. Hatcher, of Mahone's Brigade, who was sick), and Chaplain Renfroe baptized eightytwo soldiers belonging to Mahone's Virginia and Wilcox's Alabama Brigades. About five thousand soldiers, from the general to the private, lined the banks. There was deep solemnity pervading the vast throng, and a more impressive scene is rarely witnessed. About dusk that evening I went with Brot
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 10: revivals in the Lower Valley and around Fredericksburg. (search)
Stiles reports to the Christian Observer that there are revivals of religion, or a state of promising preparation, amongst others, in the following brigades: Barksdale's, Stonewall, Lawton's, Walker's, Paxton's, Hoke's, Cobb's, Jones's, Posey's, Wilcox's and Kershaw's. The following letter gives a better account of the condition of things at the time I wrote it than I can give now, and so I insert it in full: camp near Hamilton's Crossing, April 10, 1863. Dear Brethren: I have no stirrnt, the Twenty-eighth North Carolina Regiment, the Third Alabama Regiment, the Stonewall Brigade, J. M. Jones's Virginia Brigade, Kershaw's Brigade, Early's Brigade, Chimborazo and Camp Winder Hospitals, in Richmond, Harris's Mississippi Brigade, Wilcox's Alabama Brigade, Doles's Georgia Brigade, Thirteenth Alabama Regiment, Twenty-sixth Alabama, Wright's Georgia Brigade, and other commands. One of the most powerful revivals at this period was in Thomas's Georgia Brigade, which began about th
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 11: the great revival along the Rapidan. (search)
in, in a little prayer-meeting, five persons had professed conversion and wish to join some Church. A neighboring chaplain, on application, went over to assist them. The prayer-meeting was now a great congregation and the interest was growing. Wilcox's Brigade is now blessed for the first time by an outpouring of God's Spirit. There have been some thirty conversions therein during the week, ending August 18th. It is harvest time with the army. Jesus is the Husbandman, and angels are singin reported, and can enter into very few details in the space at my command. But in August, September, October and November, 1863, revivals were reported in Smith's Virginia, Gordon's Georgia, Mahone's Virginia, Hays's Louisiana, Wright's Georgia, Wilcox's Alabama, Posey's Mississippi, Ramseur's North Carolina, Doles's Georgia, Scales's North Carolina, Thomas's Georgia, J. M. Jones's Virginia, Battle's Alabama, Kemper's Virginia, Armistead's Virginia, Corse's Virginia, Garnett's Virginia, Hoke's
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 12: progress of the work in 1864-65. (search)
a very pleasant meeting of our Chaplains' Association. A large number of chaplains were present, and the reports elicited showed a very healthful religious feeling throughout the army. A revival was reported as in progress in Davis's Mississippi Brigade, in which nine had professed conversion, and seventy were inquiring the way to life. There is also an interesting state of things in Kirkland's North Carolina Brigade, and in the First North Carolina Regiment. The good work commenced in Wilcox's (old) Brigade last summer seems to be reviving. In one of the regiments there I have heard of men going out in the snow barefooted to attend the nightly prayer-meeting, which was held out of doors for want of a chapel. We had no report from Wright's Georgia Brigade, but I trust that the revival reported there is still in progress. In a number of other regiments and brigades increased interest in the prayermeetings, Bible-classes, etc., was reported. A committee appointed at the last me
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix: letters from our army workers. (search)
Yours fraternally, Chas. H. Dobbs. From Rev. Dr. Renfroe, Baptist, chaplain Tenth Alabama Regiment. Talladega, Alabama, January 31, 1867. Dear Brother Jones: In attempting to give you some account of the religious character of Wilcox's old brigade, in the army of Northern Virginia, I find that I am entirely dependent upon my memory. I loaned my notes of events to a brother, who now informs me that he cannot lay his hand on them, having mislaid them. The Tenth Alabama was red, and seventy-five or eighty were eagerly inquiring what they must do to be saved. Brother Booker stated that in Jones's Brigade fast-day had been well observed in four services. Much secret interest was discovered among the command. In Wilcox's Brigade the interest continued unabated. There had been seventyfive conversions since we came into camp, near Orange Court House. Brothers Power, Lewis, and others, had been helping the chaplains. Preaching had been suspended and substituted
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Roster of chaplains, army of Northern Virginia. (search)
ixth Mississippi. M. B. Chapman. First Battalion. Archer's (Old) Brigade and Walkers (Old) Brigade. First Tennessee. W. T. Helm. Seventh Tennessee. Rev. Mr. Harris. Fourteenth Tennessee. J. E. King. Forty-fourth Tennessee. Twenty-third Tennessee. Sixty-third Tennessee. Fortieth Virginia. Geo. F. Bagby; J. M. Anderson. Forty-seventh Virginia. S. P. Meredith; S. B. Barber. Fifty-fifth Virginia. R. B. Beadles. Twenty-second Virginia Battalion. Thirteenth Alabama. T. H. Howell. Wilcox's Division. Scales's Brigade. Thirteenth North Carolina. Sixteenth North Carolina. Rev. Mr. Watson. Twenty-second North Carolina. F. H. Wood. Thirty-fourth North Carolina. A. R. Benick. Thirty-eighth North Carolina. Rev. Mr. McDiarmid. McGowan's Brigade. First South Carolina. Twelfth South Carolina. Rev. Mr. Dixon; J. M. Anderson. Thirteenth South Carolina. Wallace Duncan; J. N. Bouchelle. Fourteenth South Carolina. W. B. Carson. Orr's Rifles. F. P. Mulally. Thomas's Br