History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers 1861 1865 Personal R
History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers 1861 1865 Personal R
Herbert W Beecher
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" The Camp at Folly Island, where the Battery had spent nine easy months, was broken, and real war with all its dangers and horrors was to be engaged in by those comrades who had read much but seen little of its ac- tualities while stationed on the Island. CHAPTER XV. THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. In the Battery were many who were good and earnest Christians, and they felt, even more than others, the responsibilities resting upon the defenders of the flag. "War is hell, " said General Sherman at t...he close of the war, and at its very commencement the ^bi^ professing Christians realized that only by constant ^«^^^^. Vigilance and unceasing prayer could the soldiers ; ^^B^^^^^^^L resist the temptations which would beset them. . OHHHHBIHH in the month of June, 1863, the members of the Battery had proved that their predilections were j correct and some among them proposed the forma- tion of a religious society. A meeting was held at Beaufort and the following preamble and resolutions were adopted, which we transcribe verbatim from the secretary's minute book: Whereas, the undersigned members of the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers, having left our homes and many religions privi- leges to come here to battle in defence of our Country's rights, feel it not only our duty to do what we can in defence of our country, but to sustain its principles and follow the teachings of our forefathers, and above all that, as those who profess to be the CHARLES A.
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