The battle of the Wilderness . tion ofSouthern fortitude.^^ No, but it helps us to appreciateit truly. With this prelude, let us go on with our as we breast the fierce wind, and tramp onthrough the snow from camp to camp, what is it thatwe hear from those houses built of logs or slabs? Lo,men are preaching and praying earnestly; for duringthose bleak winter nights, so have the chaplainsrecorded, a great revival was going on; in everybrigade of the sixty odd thousand men, the veteransof Gainess Mill, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburgwere on their knees asking God to forgive their sins,to
The battle of the Wilderness . tion ofSouthern fortitude.^^ No, but it helps us to appreciateit truly. With this prelude, let us go on with our as we breast the fierce wind, and tramp onthrough the snow from camp to camp, what is it thatwe hear from those houses built of logs or slabs? Lo,men are preaching and praying earnestly; for duringthose bleak winter nights, so have the chaplainsrecorded, a great revival was going on; in everybrigade of the sixty odd thousand men, the veteransof Gainess Mill, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburgwere on their knees asking God to forgive their sins,to bless their far-away homes and beloved of the officers of a battery tells us in its historythat right after retreat they always met for prayerand song, and that when the order came to marchfor the Wilderness, while the teams stood ready tomove, they held the battery long enough to observetheir custom of worship. In those sacred hours when the soldiers of North-ern Virginia were supplicating their Creator through. THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS 69 his Son to forgive them all their sins, and imploringhis hand to guide them on in the paths of righteous-ness, I think we find at least profoundly suggestivematerial for the answer to the question: Whencecame the spirit that animated and sustained theirfortitude through those eleven months of battle?The sense of peace with God is as much a reality asthe phenomenon of dawn or the Northern , hear what Carlyle says about an idea:Every society, every polity, has a spiritual prin-ciple, the embodiment of an idea. This idea, be itdevotion to a man or class of men, to a creed, to aninstitution, or even, as in more ancient times, to apiece of land, is ever a true loyalty; has in it some-thing of a religious, paramount, quite infinite char-acter; it is properly the soul of the state, its life;mysterious as other forms of life, and, like those,working secretly, and in a depth beyond that ofconsciousness. Do not the lo
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