W. H. D. Rouse
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When chaplains were not available, the men sometimes organized and conducted their own religious services.
On the other hand, many soldiers ignored religion altogether and continued such sinful practices as cursing, drinking, and gambling.
Nevertheless, what one soldier called the missionary influence of the enemy's canon and the constant presence of death and suffering led many to seek comfort in religion.
Throughout the campaign, when the armies were in a relatively stable situation, the men sometimes agreed not to shoot at one another.
Instead, they would meet between the lines to talk, swim, drink, bathe, enjoy the sun, pick blackberries, exchange newspapers, swap northern coffee for southern tobacco, play cards, wrestle, eat, sing, rob the dead, and argue politics.
Officers on both sides tried to prohibit this fraternization, but the men in the ranks had the good sense to ignore their orders.
these informal truces would usually be respected by all and when they were over fighting would not resume until every man had gotten back to his own trenches much of the tragedy of the war was reflected in a letter written by a wisconsin soldier on june twenty fourth we made a bargain with them that we would not fire on them if they would not fire on us
and they were as good as their word it seemed too bad that we have to fight men like that now these southern soldiers seem just like our own boys only they are on the other side they talk about their people at home their mothers and fathers and their sweethearts just as we do among ourselves however regardless of the soldiers feelings about each other during those times of truce the war was being run by the generals and the generals said it must go on
End of Part 4 Part 5 of The Road Past Kennesaw, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 by Richard Manning McMurray.
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Part 5 Peachtree Creek John Bell Hood, the new commander of the Confederate forces, found himself in a difficult position on the morning of July 18, 1864.
Hood was young, only 33, and relatively inexperienced in handling large bodies of troops.
After graduation from West Point in the same class with the Federal Generals McPherson and Schofield, he had served with the U.S.
Army until the spring of 1861, when he resigned and cast his lot with the Confederacy.
In the early years of the war, Hood had risen rapidly in rank,
arise more than justified by his outstanding leadership at the brigade and division level until the summer of eighteen sixty three who had been physically one of the most magnificent men in the confederate army a woman who knew him in eighteen sixty one described him as six feet two inches in height with a broad full chest light hair and beard blue eyes with a peculiarly soft expression commanding in appearance dignified in deportment
gentlemanly and courteous to all by the time he took command of the army of tennessee hood's appearance had undergone some changes his left arm dangled uselessly at his side smashed by a federal bullet at gettysburg in july eighteen sixty three his right leg was gone cut away at the hip following a wound received at the battle of chickamauga in september
Hood suffered great pain from these wounds, and no doubt he should have been retired from field command, but he was not the kind of man who could stay away from the Army during a war.
After recovering from his second wound, he was sent to the Army of Tennessee as a Corps commander and had served in that capacity until Davis elected him to succeed Johnston.
He may have been taking a derivative of laudanum to ease his pain,
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