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James K. Lee (search for this): chapter 7
d on the hearts of careless and irreligious persons. I have known many noble specimens of the Christian soldier, said Rev. Dr. John C. Granbery, then chaplain of the 11th Virginia regiment, afterwards Superintendent of Methodist missionaries in Gen. Lee's army, whom the soldiers will never forget on account of his zeal and faithfulness; I shall never cease to remember with admiration one of the earliest victims of this war, Major Carter Harrison, of the 11th Virginia. He was an earnest servantriptural promise; now of his country, and then of his family; and often arose in a holy ejaculation to God. His flesh rests in hope; his spirit rose to God. I recall, says Dr. Granbury, an interview with the sweet-spirited and gallant Captain James K. Lee, of Richmond, Va. How glad I am, said he as he gave me a cordial grasp, to shake the hand of a brother in Christ! I referred with sympathy to his intense sufferings. With emphasis he answered, Oh, they are nothing to the sufferings which
Henry Hubbard (search for this): chapter 7
I learned he was here wounded, and sought him out to nurse and attend him. Thus they met-one from the far North, the other from the extreme South--on a bloody field in Virginia — in a miserable stable, far away from their mother, home, and friends-both wounded — the infantryman by a musket ball in the right shoulder, the artilleryman by the wheel of a caisson over his left hand. Thus they met after an absence of seven years. Their names are Frederick Hubbard, Washington Artillery, and Henry Hubbard, 1st Minnesota Infantry. We met a surgeon of one of the Alabama regiments and related the case to him, and requested, for the sake of the artilleryman, that his brother might be cared for. He immediately examined and dressed his wounds, and sent off in haste for an ambulance to take the wounded Yankee to his own regimental hospital. Alas! that our country should ever have been visited by a war in which brother was often thus arrayed against brother. Another sad incident of the same
J. M. Atkinson (search for this): chapter 7
his brain and out near the temple on the opposite side. He fell dead instantly. And thus hundreds of Christian men gladly yielded up their lives, cheered and sustained by the glorious hope of a better life in heaven. While this battle was raging the earnest prayers of the Southern people were ascending to God for his protection to our soldiers and his blessing on their arms. A remarkable answer to prayer is recorded in reference to a company from Georgia. A prayer-meeting was held at Atkinson's church, in Oglethorpe county, in that State, to pray for the safety of the Oglethorpe Rifles, who went from that neighborhood. The prayers were ascending in their behalf while the battle was raging, and they were mingling in the tornado of shells and bullets which mowed the gallant 8th Georgia regiment, of which they composed a part; and yet, of all the companies engaged, this alone showed from the record, none killed. Those who recall the prevailing sentiments of our people at this p
Jennings Wise (search for this): chapter 7
political tenets which culminated in the elevation of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States as fraught with evil to the South, they resolved to assert those rights of Sovereign States which they had learned from the fathers of the Republic; and to attempt the establishment of a government free from those disturbing causes which had for many years threatened the peace of the Union. The South was not alone in its apprehensions of danger from the triumph of a sectional party. Wise and moderate men at the North felt and expressed their fears for the safety of the country. A prominent divine, in a funeral discourse on the eminent Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court of the United States, who was taken away just as the dark shadows began to fall on the land, says: He told me that he had marked the downward progress of our nation and of our government for many years; that he knew that, as a people, we had become corrupt to the very core; that politics had degenerated
John C. Granbery (search for this): chapter 7
t speech I ever heard, taking the time, place, and circumstances, into consideration. The battle of Manassas, on the 21st, and the preliminary fight at Blackburn's Ford, on the 18th of July, were both marked by striking instances of Christian heroism and devotion. The peaceful and often triumphant deaths of pious officers and men had a powerful influence for good on the hearts of careless and irreligious persons. I have known many noble specimens of the Christian soldier, said Rev. Dr. John C. Granbery, then chaplain of the 11th Virginia regiment, afterwards Superintendent of Methodist missionaries in Gen. Lee's army, whom the soldiers will never forget on account of his zeal and faithfulness; I shall never cease to remember with admiration one of the earliest victims of this war, Major Carter Harrison, of the 11th Virginia. He was an earnest servant of Christ; modest, firm, unostentatious, zealous. He seized at once the hearts of the regiment by his many virtues, by his court
J. M. Carlisle (search for this): chapter 7
Divine power, to put forth still greater efforts in behalf of the spiritual welfare of our army. Fully one-third of the soldiers are destitute of a copy of the New Testament, and of all other religious reading. From Fairfax Court-house Rev. J. M. Carlisle wrote to a religious paper at Richmond: As chaplain of the 7th regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, I desire to return thanks to certain unknown parties, in your city, for a donation of religious books and tracts, forwarded to me forep concern felt by the home folks for its religious welfare. When the 7th regiment of South Carolina was about to leave home for the seat of war, the colored members of the Methodist Church in the town of Aiken presented to the chaplain, Rev. J. M. Carlisle, a magnificent copy of the Word of God for the use of the regiment. After reaching Virginia, the chaplain wrote: Our regiment is doing well. I try to preach on the Sabbath-usually twice. We have also a regimental prayer-meeting every ev
Ford (search for this): chapter 7
nse sufferings. With emphasis he answered, Oh, they are nothing to the sufferings which Jesus bore for me,! In a few days he too was in the bosom of his Father. On Sunday, July 21, 1861, was fought the first battle of Manassas. As the first gun was fired, says the same writer, a few minutes after 7 A. M., I mounted my horse and hastened from the Junction to our regiment, still stationed at Blackburn's Ford. On my way I met several regiments, some of them Mississippians, moving from that Ford to some other part of the line of action. I hailed them as they passed: Virginia's salutation to her sister Mississippi! Let each State of the Southern Confederacy cover herself with glory, and pour a common glory on the cause of the united South to-day. God bless you, friends. Commit your souls and the righteous cause you uphold to him. Rev. Dr. Bocock was with me, and addressed them in a similar strain. I cannot tell much of this day's work. The hard fighting was on our left, and we
W. E. Hatcher (search for this): chapter 7
and sufferings of the campaign, even more than to face the enemy in the field. Good tidings came from many other portions of the army. Scenes like the following became more frequent every week: For more than a week a revival has been in progress among the soldiers stationed at Ashland. Services are held every night in the Baptist church, and the seats set apart for the anxious are frequently well nigh filled by the soldiers, who are asking for the prayers of God's people. Rev. W. E. Hatcher, of Manchester, preaches every night. At Aquia Creek thirty have professed conversion within a few weeks, a number of whom were baptized in the Potomac by Rev. Geo. F. Bagby, a chaplain. The entire regiment with which the converts were connected turned out to witness the ceremony. Our informant says he has never looked upon a more lovely and impressive scene. We understand that a protracted meeting is in progress in Col. Cary's regiment, and that Rev. Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline,
Lewis D. Campbell (search for this): chapter 7
We met a surgeon of one of the Alabama regiments and related the case to him, and requested, for the sake of the artilleryman, that his brother might be cared for. He immediately examined and dressed his wounds, and sent off in haste for an ambulance to take the wounded Yankee to his own regimental hospital. Alas! that our country should ever have been visited by a war in which brother was often thus arrayed against brother. Another sad incident of the same kind was related by the Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio: I had two brothers in the war; one in the Confederate army in Texas, and the other in the Union army. They were sons of one who, at the age of seventeen, fought at the battle of Eutaw Springs. One of my brothers, at the head of a regiment of Texans, fell in Louisiana, and the other, at the head of a Union regiment, fell at the battle of Chancellorsville. And the news of the death of both of these-one on the one side and the other-reached their afflicted mother on
M. D. Anderson (search for this): chapter 7
emed glad to have me labor among his command, and will doubtless render me any aid I may need. Mr. J. C. Clopton wrote from among the sick and wounded at Charlottesville: This is a most inviting field, as hundreds are here on beds of suffering, and consequently disposed to consider things that make for their peace. The deepest feeling is often manifested; they listen to what I say, and read with great eagerness the tracts and books I give them. Another faithful colporteur, Mr. M. D. Anderson, said of the scenes he witnessed at Fredericksburg and Aquia Creek: I have gone nearly through the regiments stationed between Fredericksburg and the Creek. The soldiers are eager for religious reading; and frequently, when they have seen me coming, they have even run to meet me, exclaiming, Have you any Testaments? Much of my time has been spent with the sick in the hospitals, where, oftentimes, my heart was made to rejoice at witnessing the sustaining power of Christianity in
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