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Of our polite civilization, we were therefore insensible to the soft influences which come to us from Heaven, or that we never feel the inspiratides of tenderness, love, pity, unalterable devotion? X Not only can our dear boys be "marvellously" gracious unto each other, but also they can be as full of rare and delicate tenderness toward the suffering of the enemy. I know a man in our Regiment who, after the fight at Mission Ridge, gave his overcoat and blanket to two wounded rebels, himself sleeping without either. Nor are such actions uncommon. We are fighting for God, I take it, and it is right and proper that we should be Knightly in so high and gracious a cause X I am glad to learn from your Sister that the Sermons of Rev. F. W. Robertson of my land are so highly valued by you both. He was the noblest man whom I ever knew; and it was my good fortune to know him intimately, so far as a boy can enter into relationship with a mature man. And the teachings and showings of that man have had over my nature more influence for good that the teachings of all other men combined. I have two heroes. One