V. Personal Narrative--Perryville 50 VI. Personal Narrative--Murfreesboro 64 VII. Personal Narrative--Shelbyville 69 VIII. Personal Narrative--A Dramatic Episode 83 IX. Personal Narrative--Chickamauga 87 X. Personal Narrative--Atlanta 95 XI. Personal Narrative--Columbus (Georgia) and the Journey into Tennessee 102 XII. Personal Narrative--Franklin 112 XIII. Personal Narrative--The Crumbling of the Confederacy 125 XIV. Personal Narrative--The Close of the War 143 XV. A Long Episcopate 149 XVI. Bishop Quintard and Sewanee 164 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Writers upon the late Civil War have never done full justice to the high religious character of the majority of those who composed the Confederate government and its army, and the high religious principles which inspired them. Not only was the conviction of conscience clear in the Southern soldiers, that they were right in waging war against the Federal government, but the people of the South looked upon their cause as a holy one, and their conduct of affairs, civil and military, was wholly in accord with such a view. The Confederacy, as it came into existence, committed its civil affairs, by deliberate choice, to men, not only of approved morality, but of approved religious character as well. It was not merely by accident, that, in the organization of its army, choice was made of such men as Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson,--not to mention a large number of other Christian soldiers,--as leaders. And it seemed in no way incongruous in the conduct of a war of such a character, that commissions were offered to and accepted by the Rev. William Nelson Pendleton, Rector of Grace Church, Lexington, Virginia, and the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D., Bishop of Louisiana. A religious tone pervades the state papers pertaining to the Confederacy,--its proclamations, and its legislation. The same religious tone is conspicuous in a majority of the military leaders. It is found upon investigation to have impressed itself upon the officers of regiments and companies and upon the private soldiers in the ranks throughout the whole army. So that there is more than an ordinary basis for the statement, surprising as such a statement may appear at first, that the armies of the Confederate States had in them a larger proportion than any other in history since those of Cromwell's nicknamed "Roundheads," of true and active Christian men.