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Rev. J.C. Granberry, D.D. Bookmark

December 5, 1829

April 1, 1907

Clergyman – Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church South

Chaplain – 11th Va. Inf. Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia

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John Cowper Granberry Recorded, “Our soldiers were exposed to severe temptations, and were deprived of many aids to pious culture. Yet grace triumphed over all these disadvantages. I have nowhere witnessed more complete, symmetrical and beautiful examples of Christian character than in the army. Some were boys, others mature men; cut off from church and Sunday School, often having no day of sacred rest and little communion of saints, they feared the Lord and thought upon His name. On every march they carried the well-thumbed Bible, and the hard ground on which they lay without a pillow, bed or tent, often proved to them a Bethel. The lonely vigils of Sentinels and picket were hallowed and cheered by sweet meditations of God.”