William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War

Never were stronger proofs given of the sustaining and comforting power of religion than during this terrible war, which stripped our homes of loved ones, our land of plenty, our hearts of joy, and left us nothing to fall back upon in our sufferings and humiliation but the promises of God, who poured out his Spirit so richly upon our soldiers in all the hardships of the march and in all the unutterable anguish that followed our great battles.