April 10, 1864
---Gen.
Steele’s Federal column from Arkansas, on their way to join Banks, decides to
turn and return to Little Rock, harassed by Rebel attacks along the way.
---Kate
Cumming, a Confederate Army nurse at Dalton, Georgia, records the activities in
the Rebel camp in the emerging springtime:
Sunday, April 10.—A real April day, cloud and
sunshine. This morning Dr. A. preached a very interesting sermon. His text was,
“Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.” I think it is a pity
that he is not a chaplain instead of a surgeon. I told him so, but he says his
health will not permit it.
There is a religious revival here in which the
citizens take very little interest, but the soldiers a great deal.
Dr. McFerrin, a Methodist preacher, is holding it.
He is a chaplain, and his very soul seems to be in the work. He is one of the
most earnest preachers I ever heard.
The people are very gay. Nearly every night a party
is given. The gentlemen who attend them are the attachees of the hospital and the
officers of the post.
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