Sunday February 1\u2014Preach in camp. Visit our regiment on picket about three miles away. Rain at night.<\/p>\n
February 2\u2014Seven years ago! My first son, Henry Watson, was born in Mrs. Meade’s Hotel, Martinsville, Va. That morning I knelt silently upon the floor in my wife’s room and prayed and wept when I first felt parental responsibility. God bless my boy today! Seven years old! May he spend many useful, happy years on earth and get safe to Heaven! God bless the mother today, and Willie and Mamie. My dear sainted Eddie! Safe in Heaven! Your father hopes to embrace you by-and-by in your angel home. Wrote to wife and Mrs. Meade.<\/p>\n
Feb. 3\u2014Exceedingly cold.<\/p>\n
Feb. 4\u2014Still very cold. Freezes my ink.<\/p>\n
Feb. 5\u2014Snow begins falling early and falls steadily.<\/p>\n
Feb. 6\u2014Ride four miles in rain, hunting a cabin for Jack Faircloth, Co. A., who is very sick and weak. He will die.<\/p>\n
Feb. 7\u2014Send to Gen. Rodes for brigade to be allowed to go to church on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Feb. 8\u2014Bright day. Preach to a large, attentive congregation in Baptist church. Bros. Power and Thigpen assist in communion. Precious season! Hear from wife and Bro. Hunt.<\/p>\n
Feb. 9\u2014Much indisposed.<\/p>\n
Feb. 10\u2014Visit Brigade Hospital established yesterday. Pray with patients and Dr. Guffy. Poor Faircloth says he loves Jesus because He loved him. I, this morning, finished my fifth annual reading through the Bible. On Sampson Circuit, 1857, I went the first time regularly through this Holy Book. I hope to read it carefully through every year of my future life. Jack Faircloth dies at night. Bad night with my cough.<\/p>\n
Feb. 11\u2014Rainy. Bury Faircloth. Finish Matthew in Greek.<\/p>\n
Feb. 12\u2014Right unwell. Visit Hospital.<\/p>\n
Feb. 13\u2014Indisposed. A. Crisp, Co. F., dies at midnight.<\/p>\n
Feb. 14\u2014Bury Crisp. A. Mitchel, Co. A., dies at 3 p. m.<\/p>\n
Feb. 15\u2014Rainy. Ed Register, Co. A., dies at Brigade Hospital.<\/p>\n
Feb. 16\u2014Ride to Medical Board with some sick men. Get them off to hospital. Bury Ed Register.<\/p>\n
Feb. 17\u2014Ground covered with snow and still it comes. Saw enemy’s balloon yesterday. Not today.<\/p>\n
Feb. 18\u2014Rains gently all day. I walk to new camp through rain and mud.<\/p>\n
Feb. 19\u2014Pray with regiment.<\/p>\n
Feb. 20\u2014Regiment goes on picket just below Fredericksburg<\/strong>. Ride to Fredericksburg. Call at store house of Arthur Bernard. Sad destruction of his property. He has not been seen since the enemy took him in Dec. Fine paintings in one room, “Hope and Memory,” “Cleopatra,” etc. Call on Bro. Owen, Chaplain 17th Mississippi Regiment. Meet Rev. Dr. Stiles at sister Fitzgerald’s. Night in camp.<\/p>\n Feb. 22\u2014Rise at six, and find snow a foot deep. Snows nearly all day. Sit in my tent and read and write. Hear many heavy guns just at 12. Washington’s Birthday.<\/p>\n Feb. 24\u2014Regiment, relieved from picket, comes into camp.<\/p>\n Feb. 26\u2014Prayer meeting in Co. I. Chill and fever at night.<\/p>\n Feb. 27\u2014In bed.<\/p>\n Feb. 28\u2014Bro. Owen, 17 Mississippi Regiment, calls on me. Dr. Stiles and he still blessed in Fredericksburg with revival power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday February 1\u2014Preach in camp. Visit our regiment on picket about three miles away. Rain at night. February 2\u2014Seven years ago! My first son, Henry Watson, was born in Mrs. Meade’s Hotel, Martinsville, Va. That morning I knelt silently upon the floor in my wife’s room and prayed and wept when I first felt parental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":101323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-experience-of-a-confederate-chaplain-rev-a-d-betts"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Rev.-A.-D.-Betts-Chaplain-30th-Regiment.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}