The regiment is a parish, and they believe it their duty to go wherever the parishioners do, and help them. Thus at the battle of Roanoke Island, Rev. Mr. James of Worcester, Mass., when the officers were shot down around a gun, spring forward, encouraged the men, and worked in their midst as a gunner. A man who can work a sermon or a gun equally well, may be said to be thoroughly furnished to every good word or work.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 4, 1862, p. 2
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