Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — SOLDIER AND CHRISTIAN. [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER AND CHRISTIAN.

A. Minister in the Banka Who Would Not Shoot. There is a member of Company I of the Forty-first Georgia regiment living in this oounty, says the Heralson, Ga., Banner, who was in every battle fought bv his regiment, in every skirmish in which his company engaged in, in every charge made by his command, and did not fire a gun. He was then, and is now, a minister of the gospel, He did not believe in killing men, and frequently charged the enemy with a yell, saw his comrades fall by his side, and whether routing the Union soldiers or being routed he would not shoot. He was always ready for duty—stood guard, remained at the picket post, and obeyed implicitly every command of his superior officers except to draw cartridges, load his gun and shoot. At New Hope church, on the retreat from Dalton, several rounds of cartridges were issued to the soldiers, and he took one, and a short time afterward he was struck by a spent ball, but not hurt This remarkable man is a successful farmer and a splendid Bible Christian preacher, and is named Zachariah P. Hardigree.