March 3, 1865\u2014Regiment goes on picket. Revs. O. J. Brent and NV. H. Moore arrive from N. C. and stop with me.<\/p>\n
March 4\u2014 Brother Brent goes to Richmond. Brother Moore remains with me.<\/p>\n
March 5 (Sunday)\u2014I walk nine miles and preach to my Regiment in picket camp.<\/p>\n
March 10 (Friday)\u2014I fast and pray. Preach to my Regiment six times in their quarters. Rain all day. God help our nation in this sore extremity!<\/p>\n
March 12 ( Sunday)\u2014Preach to my Regiment. Hold prayers at night.<\/p>\n
March 13\u2014Brother Power preaches at night.<\/p>\n
March 14\u2014Hear from wife and Brother Willson. Preach at night. Brother Power and I alternate in our chapel, preaching every day and night.<\/p>\n
March 18\u2014Go to Petersburg to see John (negro servant) nearly dead. Get him into hospital.<\/p>\n
March 19 (Sunday)\u2014Preach to Weiseger’s Brigade in a. m. and ours in p. m.<\/p>\n
March 20\u2014Brigade moves near Dunlap’s and relieves Thomas’ Ga. Brigade.<\/p>\n
March 21 – Meet Chaplains in Petersburg, and see John and Capt. Allen.<\/p>\n
March 22\u2014Go by 11th N. C. Regiment and spend night in 56th with my brother. Preach to R.’s Brigade.<\/p>\n
March 24\u2014Meet Cousin Grey Utley in P. He raised three daughters. Two became wives of Rev. L. S. Burkhead, D.D. One Sunday night in October, 1853, Rev. J. L. F. opened the doors of his church in Chapel Hill to receive members. Just as I started forward that good man, Grey Utley, began to sing “Jesus, I my cross have taken.” That soft, sweet voice and the sentiment of that hymn stir my heart to-night in October, 1897, as I write these lines\u201444 years after that solemn scene.<\/p>\n
Jim Davis, of Chapel Hill, my wife’s cousin, comes to see me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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