Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-05-29

ItnNA ma y 30 A0Ao,
me mos, whom contemplated en-
lerlnf tho army was can / 90 more
GOOD with these boys. many OF whom
are members 81 my church aud con
gfeNntlon, by going with them IN the
service. than I can ~ remaining nt
home ~ charge o. ny church and
aupsrcHntion IN Durnnd {" eomehcw
fplt Impressed that q WAS my duty
~ enlist 20 ! stepped from my pulpit
and into the ranks of Company q.
Twcnty-fith wisconsin volunteer in-
lantrv and could cling with the boys;
We are coming, fnthrf Abraham,
Three Hundred Thousand strong.
"a was happy Ny own company
was like n hand Of brothers. bot when
We reached I.eCroase tur organization
and found nine other companies. All
cared whether Sergeant iinfWood had
becn Methods, preacher or What
he had been ! sometimes wondered
whether or not ] had made a mis-
take. n acemed 60 me that J WAS
rather anubbed or treated with indie
/ ference because ! had been preach
or did not enlist 10 hold revival
| services. neither did the boys 80 into
the army to get religion. but az the
/
i lnre and preaching services whenever
possible. Whenever Company q. was
detached from the regiment or when
the regular chaplain was sick ~ alb
/ sent. which was considerable Of the
time the hays always expected me to
preach,
- hold ln my hand paper which
| gives about an average report 81 a
preachers yearly work. u IL calied
an encouraging report u shows
forty-twO msmbers received into the
church. seventeen funerals and III
teen weddings conducted.
Some % our soldier boys ala get
married hut / did not perform the
lccrcmony. but I did receive into cur
little army church during the three
years it3 soldiers. an average Of for
lty.asVen instead OF the forty-tWu
shown IN this report Instead 81 reV-
entccn funerals / officiated az no few
er than two hundred and possibly
three hundred. reaching from Min
nesota. Wisconsin. Illinois. Column
bus, Helena. VicksburR. the Atlanta
campaign. on the March 10 the Sea.
IN North and South Carolina and al
Arlington Heights near Washington.
when wounded Ia front Of Atlanta !
was sent back 10 Marietta and while
there held no less than twenty -four
funerals
What q pleasure Ia look back at
ter more than fifty years % those
DAYS IN Lacrosse, when I MAS snub-
bed for daring TO cnll attention o.
profanity. gambling drinking and
unnecessary labor on the sabbath
and contrast them with the honor
preaching 20 such grand men as Gen
erals Howard. Logan. Mcpherson
Force. Sprague. Rusk and Montgom
cry The last named was present
with several other officers az the last
revival service ever held In the army
II was during our grand march ~
through the Carolinas and was helt
near Raleigh We received twenty
one into our little army church. Tn,
colonel spoke, and according Co ms
diary. 40. 3, n said, 4 acknowledS'
with shamefacedness that ! have dom
many things I ought not 10 have
done
What "a pleasure To recall that al
ter eighteen months or soldier ser
vice In that gallant Tw snty-ffth Wis
4 Contin volunteers. had the unani
nous Notc of the regiment la my Ia
vor for reGimenial csaplain. Wha
q pleasure 90 recall that almost fift'
years later had the unanimous vOt'
" AnF 3IhNW army ~ Ailf ANiihtAA
IN mN favor for chnplain-in -chiri
But Il gives me far more pleasure q
rccan the fact that II fell To- my lot e
be with and console SO many of thos
poor fellows Ia their last moment
aud Ia whisper In their dying ears tn
sweetest ~ All names. that OF Jesus
\ striking sncsdcnL
Among the incidents at the grca
war which | recall most wildly.
+ one which. So lar as know, ha
never Devn given publicity. J. &
Dent. br0ther-in-law OF Genera! e.. :
Grant. and Mr.. stevens. prOminen
lawyer OF Wisconsin, we're taken pria
oncTs near NicksburE IN the earl
days OF the war Thcy were trans
ported to Columbia, $. c.. and ther
sept In close confinement.
when Sherman's army reach
columbia on IL march from GDurgi
90 Washington We found quite mum
bcr Of Union prisoners. among then
being Dent and Stevens. They ha
been there "a long time.
Colonel Husk, then cDmmandin
the Twenty NTH Wisconsin volunteer
asked me to hitch my horse "a . bug
gy aud take Colonel stevens alon
with the army lie told me he woul
lind the buggy and harness. di
80 aud found stevens very interest
NIX and agreeable travelling com
: | uanlon.
"'rhe first day out Stevens told M
the following story tie said: Den
ana ! had almost given M hope q
ever getting out OF prison alive,
had always been "a skeptic, Di0n't he
iicve word of the bible. but. as WI
had nothing else To read. took q
reading u and soon found IL very Ia
tcrcyting White reading the Bib
one day three months ago 10y the din
light Of - candle, there appeared be-
lore me a little ilag oi the stars AM
stripes, the prettiest thing, Il appear
cd to me. I had ever seen. Il hai
on 10 this date, February Is. 1865.
felt az once. he said. that this mran
that we would Doe liberated on TIL
day, and sure enough, on that Sam
day. February rs. 1855. the arm
reached ~. our cell WAS broken opel
and we were let out The first flal
ms eye caught was an Iowa flag ol
the same day OF the date saw al
the little miniature flag about thrc'
months before. | at once called Il
Dent when ! saw the little flag. an,
told him we were going Ia bo tbcrat
ed and when and explained 10 hin