“To the privations, hardships and cruelties of the war the Presbyterians were pre-eminently exposed. In them the very essence of rebellion was supposed to be concentrated, and by the wanton plunderings and excesses of the marauding parties they suffered severely. Their Presbyterianism was prima facie evidence of guilt. A house that had a large Bible and David’s Psalms in metre in it was supposed, as a matter of course, to be tenanted by rebels. To sing ‘Old Rouse’ was almost as criminal as to have leveled a loaded musket at a British grenadier.” — Ezra H. Gillett, History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Vol. 1 (1864), p. 189