What do you think?
It was Old Jack praying.

Not any mock prayer, but praying to his Lord with all his heart and soul.

I'm not much on praying myself, but I felt pretty solemn then, and I slid away from there as quick and quiet as you please.

And I tell you, fellows, that when Stonewall Jackson prays it's time for the Yankees to weep." "You're probably right, Langdon," said Captain Sherburne, "but it's time for us to be going back, and we'll tell what we've seen to General Jackson." As they turned away a crunching in the snow on the other slope caused them to stop.

The faces of men and then their figures appeared through the bushes.