[From the diary of John Wesley Hammond of the Dixie Greys, Co. E. 42nd Virginia Infantry]

Wrote to Bro John, Skirmish

drill of officers – regular drill –

Read 5 or 6 Chapters in Bible

30 in Rosser on Experimental

Religion.

[Leonidas Rosser, 1815-1892, was a Methodist minister from Virginia who served as chaplain to the University of Virginia in 1842-1843, and as editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate, 1858-1860. He served as a missionary in the Confederate Army and was reported to have converted 200 soldiers. Hammond was reading his popular “Experimental religion :embracing justification, regeneration, sanctification, and the witness of the Spirit : rules for holy living are also added,designed principally for young Christians”

MSS 5526