May 1\u2014Hear Brother Power in his chapel, and commune with about one-hundred in a. m. Meet my Bible class in p. m., and preach in my chapel at night. Receive two into the Church.<\/p>\n
May 3\u2014In Richmond. Hear Bro. Christian in Clay Street at night. Good work there.<\/p>\n
May 5\u2014See over a thousand Federal prisoners enroute to Orange Court House.<\/strong><\/p>\n May 6\u2014Meet many wounded. Pleasant worship with my Regiment. Sizemore of Co. G. killed.<\/p>\n May 7\u2014Not much fighting. Spend day nursing wounded Federals. Find a son of Rev. B. H. Hedge, of Detroit Conference, M. E. Church, of Co. I. 24th Michigan Regiment. Wounded through left thigh. Did he get home? Is he still living?<\/p>\n May 8\u2014Marching and fighting. Capt. Mark Moore fearfully wounded. Sergeants Wells, Morrison and Whitehurst killed.<\/p>\n May 9\u2014Among wounded. Visit Rev. W. B. Owen, Chaplain 17th Miss. Regiment, who is wounded. Left elbow joint taken out.<\/p>\n May 10\u2014Terrible fight for Dole’s and Daniel’s Brigades. Col. Hall of 5th Ala., lost left arm.<\/p>\n May 11\u2014Visit Capt. S. A. Sutton of 45th N. C. Regiment, who is wounded and was my college classmate. He died there. Lieut. Eubanks, 32nd N. C. Regiment dies in peace.<\/p>\n May 12\u2014Terriffic fighting.<\/strong> Many are wounded and many killed.<\/p>\n (NOTE\u2014Nine years of married life. How many more?)<\/p>\n May 13\u2014Send off the slightly wounded. My wife’s birthday\u201427 years! John Hagler dies suddenly.<\/p>\n May 14\u2014Among the wounded.<\/p>\n Sunday, May 15\u2014Ride to Brigade and take a shelling<\/strong>. Pray with 2nd and 30th Regiments. Suddenly they are ordered off.<\/p>\n May 16\u2014Send off a few wounded.<\/p>\n May 17\u2014Send worst wounded to a new corps hospital. Womack and Ross die.<\/p>\n May 18\u2014Send more wounded off to Railroad.<\/p>\n May 19\u2014Second Corps has a fight. Many are wounded and some killed. Spend part of the day at General Hospital. Am up nearly all night.<\/p>\n May 20\u2014Very unwell all day. Take medicine.<\/p>\n May 21\u2014Rev. Evans and I, too unwell to march, report to Dr. Black at corps hospital and receive kind attention.<\/p>\n May 22\u2014Dr. Black puts me on ambulance. His train moves till in the night.<\/p>\n May 24\u2014Move on. Get three letters from my wife.<\/p>\n May 26 – Ride through wind and rain to wagon train.<\/p>\n May 27\u2014Walk past Ashland. Rest and receive kindness from Mrs. Charles Stibbins. Halt at midnight below Hanover Court House.<\/p>\n May 28\u2014Walk on rapidly and spend some time with my Regiment. Fight begins at twelve.<\/p>\n May 30\u2014Go to Richmond. Capt. Freeman, Lieut. Lemay and George Stanback are killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 1\u2014Hear Brother Power in his chapel, and commune with about one-hundred in a. m. Meet my Bible class in p. m., and preach in my chapel at night. Receive two into the Church. May 3\u2014In Richmond. Hear Bro. Christian in Clay Street at night. Good work there. May 5\u2014See over a thousand Federal prisoners […]<\/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-101544","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\/101544","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=101544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101544\/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=101544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}