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Excerpt from Life in the Army: In the Departments of Virginia, and the Gulf, Including Observations in New Orleans, With in Account of the Author's Life and Experience in the Ministry The reader, may desire to know the why, and wherefore of this publication. It is due that I should briefly meet, and satisfy such an inquiry. When appointed Chaplain to the St. James' Army Hospital in New Orleans, La. I beguiled an occasional hour of loneliness, by jotting down some observations of men and things, which to me appeared novel, and worthy of note. To this I added, as time allowed, the reminiscences of my experience in the Army of the Potomac, during the stirring period I was in active service, with my recollections of great battles, and brave men. I then, to give a degree of completeness to this memoranda, tried to recall the scenes of my early youth, my conversion to God, entrance into the ministry, and the events of several active years, on various fields of labor, within the bounds of the Philadelphia Annual Conference. On my return from the Department of the Gulf, and after being honorably mustered out of the service of my country, I occupied a short respite from duty in arranging the desultory material thus collected, and now yield to the request of my friends in giving my manuscript to the public, in the form of a book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.