Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1890 — SOLDIER AND CHRISTIAN. [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER AND CHRISTIAN.

A Mialster in th« Bank* Who WonlA Not Shoot. There is a member of Company I ol the Forty-first Georgia regiment living in this county, says the Heralson, Ga., Banner, who was in every battle fought by his regiment, in every skirmish in which his company engaged in, in •very 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 frequenlly charged the enemy with a yell, saw his oomrades 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 Ereacher, and is named Zachariah P. lardigree.