Apr. 3, ’64\u2014Preach in a. m. on Psalms I. At night on “Grow in Grace.”<\/p>\n
Apr. 6\u2014Snow and rain. Chaplain Westbrook arrives.<\/p>\n
Apr. 6\u2014Go with Westbrook to Lane’s Brigade.<\/p>\n
Apr. 7\u2014Preach at night.<\/p>\n
Friday, Apr. 8\u2014Solemn day. Preach twice. Lord, hear and answer the prayers of this day!<\/p>\n
Apr. 10\u2014Preach twice. Rain, rain.<\/p>\n
(NOTE – The kind reader, sitting in a warm room, will please not be offended when I write of “rain” Remember, that a cold rain in April in camp, means something to a soldier.)<\/p>\n
Apr. 11\u2014Rev. B. T. Lacy gives his lecture in Rev. W. C. Power’s Chapel.<\/p>\n
Apr. 17\u2014Preach to 2nd N. C. Regiment in a. m., and to Division Provost Guard and prisoners in p. m.<\/p>\n
Apr. 19\u2014Meet Chaplains in Orange Court House. Gracious meeting. Rev. Bellinger brings note from Rev. C. W. Westbrook, who is sick. I love Bellinger because he has preached to 18th N. C. Regiment.<\/p>\n
Apr. 24\u2014Preach in a. m. and night. Visit five men condemned to be shot.<\/strong> They are deeply penitent.<\/p>\n Apr. 25\u2014Preach to prisoners and guard. Pleasant communion service in my chapel at night.<\/p>\n Apr. 26\u2014Meet Chaplains.<\/p>\n Apr. 27\u2014Preach in my chapel at night.<\/p>\n Apr. 28\u2014See three men, from Wilkes County, shot for desertion.<\/p>\n Apr. 30 (Saturday)\u2014Talk with penitents and converts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apr. 3, ’64\u2014Preach in a. m. on Psalms I. At night on “Grow in Grace.” Apr. 6\u2014Snow and rain. Chaplain Westbrook arrives. Apr. 6\u2014Go with Westbrook to Lane’s Brigade. Apr. 7\u2014Preach at night. Friday, Apr. 8\u2014Solemn day. Preach twice. Lord, hear and answer the prayers of this day! Apr. 10\u2014Preach twice. Rain, rain. (NOTE – […]<\/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-101542","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\/101542","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=101542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101542\/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=101542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}