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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 13: results of the work and proofs of its genuineness (search)
ecuted contrary to the laws of civilized warfare. He accepted his doom as the will of God. Dr. Weston, chaplain of the Seventh New York Regiment, visited him on the 18th of February, the day whenc into the magnetic circle of Beall's friendship. After partaking of some nourishment, which Dr. Weston and Mr. McClure shared with him, Beall was left alone with his spiritual adviser. After him, into the hollow square around the scaffold. Before stepping upon it, he turns with a smile to Dr. Weston, and remarks: As some author has said, we may be as near God on the scaffold as elsewhere. Hee reading over, Beall promptly rises and announces his readiness. Then, reverently turning to Dr. Weston, he bows his head, while over him falls from the lips of the minister, like a spotless mantle,nds who were present, and by the letters to his family and myself of James T. Brady, Esq., and Dr. Weston, but as reported by his enemies, was one of the sublimest spectacles in history. It exhibited