This Christmas, Santa was especially good to me, and I have been blessed with several new Civil War books, videos, DVDs, shirts, relics, and prints. My mother even bought me a bag of those plastic Civil War soldiers (as a gag gift) after I had publicly chastised her on my blog for throwing my childhood army men away. (Oh yeah, I’ll be playing with those when no one else is around.) One of the “adult” gifts that I received was the Battlefield Evangelism Set, and I recommend it highly for anyone with an interest in Christian-based, Confederate history.The first book in the set is The Life and Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson by Robert Lewis Dabney. This title is considered to be one of the best books ever published about Stonewall’s faith, as it accurately depicts Jackson’s pious Christian character, service to the church, as well as his magnificent service to Virginia as it was carefully recorded by his close friend Robert Lewis Dabney.
The second title in the set is Christ in the Camp by J. William Jones, which recalls a period of great religious revival that took place from 1861-1865 when many thousands of soldiers professed Christ as their Savior and Lord. Here, too, we read of the great Christian generals who supported the many facets of Gospel work: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart, and others.
Finally, there is a short (paperback) bio entitled Robert Lewis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks as edited by Douglas Phillips. This concise book is a compilation of the wit and wisdom of one of the greatest southern theologians of the 19th-Century.
The Battlefield Evangelism Set is available from the good people at The Vision Forum, Inc.?