In memory of all those who "found Christ in the camp" and enlisted "under the banner of the cross"...
In expectation of our own salvation...
But mainly because He is Risen, and we <u>live</u>!
Happy Easter!
And 2 quotes, the first attributed to Abe Lincoln: "In the present conflict, both sides invoke the name of the Almighty. Both sides may be, but one side must be wrong. God cannot be both for and against the same thing at the same time."
And in a prayer by J. William Jones, chaplain at the University of North Carolina around 1900: "Lord we acknowledge Thee as the all-wise author of every good and perfect gift. We recognize Thy presence and wisdom in the healing shower. We acknowledge Thou had a divine plan when Thou made the rattle-snake, as well as the song bird, and this was without help from Charles Darwin. But we believe Thou will admit the grave mistake in giving the decision to the wrong side in eighteen hundred and sixty-five." (p. 133, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920)
Jones was described as unreconstructed. I wonder why? [:p]
Maj Gen Sean Turner
3rd Cavalry Division, "Yankee Thrasher"
I Corps
Army of Alabama
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