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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: Tennessee and the Church. (search)
nksgiving, and especially to beseech a throne of grace for aid in this, our country's hour of need. A very brown clipping lies before the writer, which is an article from the Army and Navy Herald, published during the war, headed Forrest and Providence, in which the above General Order, No. 4 is printed, and the editor says: The general is far from being a Christian, it is true, in many of his moments of excitement, but no man is more truly a believer in the God of the Bible and Providence, oProvidence, or more ready to acknowledge his wrongs and his faith. Let it be written here that that belief, which was theoretical in his head during the war, became, after its close, experimental and practical by his public profession of it, in uniting with the church in Memphis, of which his devout wife was a member. What has been recorded above is given simply as examples of the spirit and course of the great body of the leaders in both civil and military circles of the Confederate States, and it is sc