Yesterday was set apart by the President as a day of prayer
and fasting, and I trust that throughout the Confederacy the blessing of God
was invoked upon the army and country. We went to church at Millwood, and heard
Bishop Meade. His sermon was full of wisdom and love; he urged us to individual
piety in all things, particularly to love and charity to our enemies. He is
full of enthusiasm and zeal for our cause. His whole heart is in it, and from
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, for he talks most delightfully
and encouragingly on the subject. He says that if our ancestors had good reason
for taking up arms in 1775, surely we had much better, for the oppression they
suffered from the mother-country was not a tithe of the provocation we have received
from the Government at Washington.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 29-30
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