WE ATTEND CHURCH.
Today, for the first time since we left home, Chaplain James
held services in a meeting-house. We occupied the large house of the
Presbyterian society, which was well filled with a miscellaneous congregation
of soldiers, sailors, citizens and negroes, both men and women. Col. Upton had
improvised a choir, and, with the aid of the organ, led the singing. The
chaplain preached a very good discourse, and I hardly knew which felt the best,
he or the colonel. There are several other meetinghouses here, which are or
have been occupied by the Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, Catholic and negro
societies. It would seem that this people have sometime been a God-fearing
people, but since Jeff. Davis inaugurated a new regime, every man has done that
which seemed good in his own sight. Hence we are here on this little excursion.
SOURCE: David L. Day, My Diary of Rambles with the 25th Mass.
Volunteer Infantry, p. 47
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