{"id":101539,"date":"2024-01-31T01:07:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=101539"},"modified":"2021-02-17T09:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:17:33","slug":"experience-of-a-confederate-chaplain-rev-a-d-betts-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/experience-of-a-confederate-chaplain-rev-a-d-betts-86\/","title":{"rendered":"January 10 to 31, 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, Jan. 10\u2014Cold. Prayer meetings in Company quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 11\u2014Get a few poles for my chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 12\u2014Meet Chaplains at Pisgah. Get poles all cut for chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 13\u2014Haul poles and begin my chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 14\u2014Still at work on chapel. Chaplains of this division met in my tent yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 16\u2014Get roof and chimneys finished. Having labored with my detail and conducted prayer meeting every night, I feel very much wearied.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 17\u2014Preach in chapel a. m. Bible class in p. m. Prayer meeting in Co. I at night.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 20\u2014Rev. Henry Hardie calls and prays with me. Bible class at night.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 21\u2014Ride by Kirkland&#8217;s Brigade and see Bros. Webb, Lacy and Smith. Chapel up. Meet Bros. Hines and Paris on their way to North Carolina with Hoke&#8217;s Brigade. Go late to Lane&#8217;s Brigade, looking for Bro. Westbrook. Night with Bro. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 22\u2014Return to Regiment and find Col. Parker arrived yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 23\u2014Ride with Bro. N. B. Cobb to see Johnston&#8217;s Brigade and also see Bro. Gwaltney in First North Carolina Regiment. Bro. Robbins, (J. H.) 12th Regiment, arrives and preaches for me.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 24\u2014Bro. Harding preaches for me in a.m. Bible class in p. m. Bro. Gwaltney preaches for me at night Bro. Robbins spends night with me.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 25\u2014In camp. Prayer meeting in Co. A. at night.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 26\u2014Meet Chaplains at Bro. Booker&#8217;s chapel in Jones&#8217; Brigade. Bro. Cobb preaches. About fifteen Chaplains present. Near twenty chapels being built in this army. Bro. Robbins moves to his Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 27\u2014Exceedingly warm.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 28\u2014Bros. Anderson, Robbins and I visit the provost guard and prisoners in Rodes&#8217; Division. <strong>One prisoner is to be shot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jan. 29\u2014Bro. Robbins and I walk to Bro. Gwaltney&#8217;s Regiment. I preach.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 30\u2014Right unwell. Bro. Robbins spends night with me. Regiment goes on picket.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Jan. 31\u2014Bro. Evans and I visit and preach to provost guard and prisoners. New prison. Visit prisoners also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, Jan. 10\u2014Cold. Prayer meetings in Company quarters. Jan 11\u2014Get a few poles for my chapel. Jan 12\u2014Meet Chaplains at Pisgah. Get poles all cut for chapel. Jan. 13\u2014Haul poles and begin my chapel. Jan. 14\u2014Still at work on chapel. Chaplains of this division met in my tent yesterday. Jan. 16\u2014Get roof and chimneys finished. [&hellip;]<\/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-101539","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\/101539","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=101539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101539\/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=101539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}