Feb. 2, 1864\u2014Meet Chaplains. Prayer meeting at Bro. Booker’s chapel. Write to Henry and his mother. Eight years old today!<\/p>\n
Feb. 4\u2014Walk to Battle’s Brigade and see Bros. Currin and Rutledge, Chaplains. Walk to saw mill and thence to 12th North Carolina. Bro. Evans spends night with me.<\/p>\n
Feb. 5\u2014Preach in Bro. Booker’s chapel in a. m. Bro. Robbins in Bro. Butler’s at night. Bro. Robbins spends night with me.<\/p>\n
Feb. 6, 1864\u2014Revs. F. H. Wood and J. H. Colton arrive. I get a ream of heavy paper. The manufacturers in Wake County sent it to me, at my request, to be given to the men of my Regiment for writing paper. Sheets were very large. Yankees cross Rapidan and our men repel them.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday, Feb. 7\u2014As my Regiment did not return from picket, I go to see provost guard and prisoners and worship with them. One is to be shot.<\/strong><\/p>\n Feb. 9\u2014Meet Chaplains in Presbyterian Church at Orange Court House. Dr. Witherspoon preaches. Gen. Lee is there.<\/strong> Bro. Harding preaches for me at night.<\/p>\n Feb. 10\u2014I divided a large lot of paper with my men. Bro. Evans, 4th Ga., preaches for me at night.<\/p>\n Feb. 11\u2014Bro. Gwaltney preaches at night.<\/p>\n Feb. 12\u2014Bro. Jones, 25th Va., preaches.<\/p>\n Feb. 13\u2014Bro. Nelson, 44th Va., preaches. Dr. Grissom is in camp.<\/p>\n Feb. 14\u2014Preach to my Regiment.<\/p>\n Feb. 16\u2014Snow on the ground. Bro. Lee, 5th Va., comes to see me and prays with me.<\/p>\n Feb. 17\u2014Bitter cold.<\/p>\n Feb. 18\u2014Still bitter cold.<\/p>\n Feb. 19\u2014At night. Bros. Anderson, Evans, and Power join me and my Regiment in the Lord’s Supper.<\/p>\n Feb. 20\u2014Regiment goes on picket.<\/p>\n Feb. 21\u2014Preach to 2nd Regiment in a. m., and to 4th at night. Dr. Lloyd spends night with me.<\/p>\n Feb. 22\u2014Start to North Carolina.<\/p>\n Feb. 23\u2014Meet Dr. Craven in Raleigh.<\/p>\n Feb. 24\u2014Get home to breakfast. A. H. Merritt calls and shows us kindness.<\/p>\n Feb. 25\u2014Ride with family to Merritt’s Chapel. Meet Rev. J. B. Martin. Preach for him. Pay two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) for a cow.<\/p>\n Feb. 26-7\u2014At home.<\/p>\n Feb. 28\u2014Hear Rev. R. A. Willis preach twice in M. E. Church.<\/p>\n Feb. 29\u2014Build pen for cow and calf. Bro. Willis sups with us. God keep my family, now and forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feb. 2, 1864\u2014Meet Chaplains. Prayer meeting at Bro. Booker’s chapel. Write to Henry and his mother. Eight years old today! Feb. 4\u2014Walk to Battle’s Brigade and see Bros. Currin and Rutledge, Chaplains. Walk to saw mill and thence to 12th North Carolina. Bro. Evans spends night with me. Feb. 5\u2014Preach in Bro. Booker’s chapel in […]<\/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-101540","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\/101540","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=101540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101540\/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=101540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}