Col. about it. Visited hospitals -- talked & prayed with
them -- hung up cards of SS -- in four dift. tents & [?]
Just as Afternoon Service ^'was about to' begin -- orders came to march
at 12. tomorrow with shelter tents & seven days rations --
Preached. fr. Surely [symbol for God] is in this place & I knew it not--
We have abt. 200 off duty. It is sd. Burnside is repulsed --
don't believe it -- Don't know where we are to go --
Camp all astir getting ready. I went to hospitals -- & at
suggestion of a pious nurse established family worship
in four wards -- while I am away -- also conducted a
[Either a word missing or Butler intended to write "one" instead of "a"]
in Company F, in P.M. Much pleased both they & I
& now may God prepare us for what is before us
tomorrow -- we leave one sick -- & one doctor -- & the Camp
standing
Butler uses a symbol for word God in the above quote from the story of Jacob in Genesis.
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